Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of women's depression and the ways of stress coping on binge eating behavior. Participants were 497 females in an undergraduate school student. They completed questionnaires which were made to evaluate a scale of bing eating behavior, depression, ways of stress coping. The results of this study are as follow. The group of being with binge eating behavior was more likely to engage in high level of depression and emotion-focused coping than the group of non-binge eating behavior. Also, depression did greatly contribute to the prediction of binge eating behavior, and emotion-focused coping among four subtypes of stress coping styles was significantly predictive of binge eating behavior. Furthermore, It showed that the interaction between depression and emotion-focused coping influenced on binge eating behavior. That is, the result of low depression group was showed there is a little change of binge eating behavior by their degree of emotion-focused coping, whereas the binge eating behavior of high depression group tended to increase by their emotion-focused coping was higher. The results indicated that emotion-focused coping played moderating role in the relations between depression and binge eating behavior.