| This research was designed to investigate the relationship among psychological distress, depression, anxiety, thought suppression, and binge eating. The primary purpose of this project was to examine the mediating effect of thought suppression on psychological distress, depression, and anxiety in relation to binge eating. In a sample of 85 undergraduate students aged 18 to 41 years, a correlational analysis was conducted to test the direction and magnitude of the relationships between body psychological distress, depression, anxiety, thought suppression, and binge eating. Mediation models were analyzed to investigate the degree to which thought suppression accounted for the relationship between psychological distress and binge eating, depression and binge eating, and anxiety and binge eating. Results indicated that binge eating was positively correlated with psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and thought suppression. Mediation analyses demonstrated that thought suppression did not mediate the relationship between depression and binge eating. However, thought suppression fully mediated the relationship between anxiety and binge eating, and it also fully mediated the relationship between psychological distress and binge eating. The results suggest that thought suppression plays an important role in the relationship between anxiety and binge eating and psychological distress and binge eating. These findings have implications for the treatment of binge eating disorder. |
