Chapter 4 82 Results This section presents the results by research question. The structure of the paragraphs for RQ2 and RQ3 is visualized in Fig. 2 below. RQ1: do participants with emotional eating behaviour identify themselves with the situations as presented in the vignettes? The first question to the participants “Do you identify yourself with the persona Lisanne or Anita?” was meant to validate the given personas and scenarios (see Table 3). Overall, nearly 90% of participants “totally” or “more or less” acknowledged all six conditions, i.e. “after emotional eating” (Lisanne persona) and “when experiencing cravings” (Anita persona) (55% totally; 34% more or less). For recognition, only 2.6% of respondents answered “a little” to “not at all”. The answer to RQ1 is that the numbers show a large portion of respondents recognizing themselves in the personas as presented in the vignettes. Table 1 | Distribution of vignettes (N = 144) Table 2 | Characteristics of participants Condition Persona Attributes Coaching strategy 1 Coaching strategy 2 Coaching strategy 3 1 – when experiencing cravings N = 67 Anita Experiencing negative emotions or distress Validating1 Focus-onchange1 Dialectical1 2 – after emotional eating N = 77 Lisanne Low self-esteem and poor body image Validating2 Focus-onchange2 Dialectical2 Participants’ characteristics Mean Standard Deviation Range Age (years) 44 12.86 19–70 Weight (kg) 89 20.22 52–131 Height (cm) 170 7.00 150–185 BMI (weight/height2) 30.3 6.48 18–46 Eating style, emotional eating (DEBQ) 3.65a 0.69 1.69–4.92 aThis score can be classified as “high” in comparison to the norm group of female age peers [6]; all participants were females
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