ABSTRACT
Obesity is one of adolescent's nutritional problems that increases the risk of degenerative disease. One of the factors that causes adolescent obesity is emotional eating. Adolescents are a stress-prone age group and at a sufficiently high risk of experiencing emotional eating. This study aims to analyze the relationship between emotional eating and obesity among adolescents. The literature was searched using electronic databases (SpringerLink, PubMed, and Science Direct) using the following keywords: “Emotional eating”, “Obesity”, and “Adolescents”. PICO (population, intervention, control, and outcomes) tables were used as a framework for this literature review. Eligible articles were included if they were: published from 2012 to 2022, written in Bahasa or English, discussing the relationship between emotional eating and obesity in adolescents. Based on the literature that was reviewed, emotional eating increases unhealthy food consumption among adolescents and is linked to the tendency for emotional eaters to overeat and consume unhealthy foods, high in fat and sugar. High consumption of fat and sugar would increase the risk of obesity in adolescents. This review concludes that emotional eating is significantly related to obesity in adolescents.
