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Brown, Glenn R. Schiraldi, and Peggy P. Wrobleski  \nABSTRACT  \nBackground: Overeating is often attributed to emotions and has been linked to psychological challenges and obesity. Purpose: This study investigated the effect of emotional and external cue eating on obesity and the correlation of emotional and external cue eating with positive and negative psychological factors, as well as early familial eating context. Methods: 483 young adults attending two universities completed instruments measuring obesity, emotional and external cue eating, familial eating patterns, depression, anxiety, stress behaviors and somaticism, optimism, self-esteem, resilience, gratitude, humility, happiness, religiosity, and disordered eating. Results: Disordered eaters (with anorexia, bulimia, purging signs) reported worse mental health and more emotional eating. Gender was the only consistent predictor of obesity and external cue eating. In addition to gender, being offered food for comfort as a child was an important predictor of emotional cue eating. Discussion: More emphasis should be given to familial eating context, particularly the practice of offering children food for comfort, as a potential precursor to young adult emotional eating behavior. Translation to Health Education Practice: Findings point to a potential need to monitor and to train primary caregivers and those supervising young children in other settings regarding the use of food for non-nutritional purposes, and to provide training to children on more constructive methods of coping with strong emotions.  \nBrown SL, Schiraldi GR, Wrobleski PP. Association of eating behaviors and obesity with psychosocial and familial influences. Am J Health Educ. 2009;40(2):80-89. This paper was submitted to the Journal on June 12, 2008, revised and accepted for publication on September 30, 2008.  \nBACKGROUND  \nMost of the research on food behaviorsin psychology has focused on obesity or eating disorders, with relatively few studies targeting behaviors such as emotional or external cue overeating and their correlates to psychological health and familial influence.1 Understanding these correlates is important because emotional overeating behavior increases risk for obesity and may potentially be a precursor to more serious disordered eating.  \nDistinguishing emotional or external cues to eat from physiological hunger requires an awareness of the signals that differentiate desire to eat based on emotions  \nor outside stimulus from appetite based on true physical need. The emotional stressors that trigger bouts of emotional eating differ among individuals, although most episodes occur when people are at home by themselves.2 Common emotional cues to eating include feelings of anger, hopelessness, lack of control, and boredom as well as positive emotions, such as celebration.3 Additionally, using food to cope with emotional problems can become a habitual response, which not only may lead to weight-related problems, but also may prevent individuals from learning constructive coping skills for effectively resolving emotional distress.  \nDepression, anxiety, and poor self-esteem  \nare often related to emotional eating behavior.4 There is some evidence that disordered eating practices might mediate the relationship between depression and obesity, with more severe disordered eating practices  \nStephen L. Brown is an associate professor in Health Education Department, Southern Illinois University, Mailcode 4632, Carbondale, IL 62901-4632; [E-mail: slbrown@siu.edu. Glenn R](E-mail: slbrown@siu.edu. Glenn R). Schiraldi is an instructor in the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, HHP Building, College Park, MD 20742.Peggy P. Wrobleski is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, HHP Building, College Park, MD 20742.  \nStephen L. Brown, Glenn R. 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