Prolific 2022 - “questions about emotions, eating behavior, symptoms of anxiety, depression, and disordered eating.”
Description
423 participants were recruited, of whom 29 (6.9%) were excluded for failing one or more of six embedded attention checks or completing the survey in less than 25 minutes (the bottom 10th percentile of response times), and 5 (1.2%) were excluded for missing data on one or more of the attention checks, resulting in a final sample size of 389. Sixty two percent of participants (n = 241) were women, 129 (33.2%) were men, and 19 (4.9%) were nonbinary. Of the full sample, 20 (5.1%) identified as transgender and 5 (1.3%) preferred not to disclose whether they were cis or transgender. Participants’ mean age was 37.42 years (SD = 12.84, range 18-74). Most described their race as White (69.4%), 10.5% identified as Black, 8.7% as multiracial, 3.4% as Asian, and 6.4% as Hispanic; 1.5% either did not report their race or described their race as “other.” No participant identified as Native American. Most participants (73.2%) had at least some college education; 14.1% were high school graduates and 12.4% had a postgraduate degree.
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Participation was limited to those living in the United States, and participants were paid $9, equivalent to a rate of $11.33 per hour based on the average 47-minute completion time. The study was described as the development of a comprehensive measure of emotional eating. Participants were told that “people differ in the extent to which emotions influence eating,” and that the survey included “questions about emotions, eating behavior, symptoms of anxiety, depression, and disordered eating.”