Weight-problem perception is an individual's self-assessment that they are overweight or obese, and is associated with emotional eating beyond that which can be explained by self-reported weight status and depression. Extant research, however, has not examined weight-problem perception and emotional eating within Latinas in the United States. The purpose of this study was to investigate emotional eating, weight-problem perception, self-reported weight status (overweight, not overweight), depression, acculturation, and enculturation within Latinas. It was hypothesized that weight-problem perception, but not weight status, would contribute to higher levels of emotional eating after depression and an acculturation-enculturation interaction were covaried. Participants were 268 undergraduates from southeastern California who identified as female and as Latina. Participants completed questionnaires to measure the variables of interest. Results indicated that emotional eating in Latinas was correlated positively with body mass index and depression (p's ≤ .05) but not at all with acculturation nor enculturation (p's ≥ .05). Analyses of covariance revealed that neither weight-problem perception (p = .10) nor weight status (p = .05) had significant main effects on emotional eating whereas depression was a significant covariate (p ≤ .01). Limitations include correlational design and an exclusively undergraduate sample with little Latinx-subgroup variability. The inclusion of precise cultural or appearance-related variables in future research might explain why a relationship between weight-problem perception and emotional eating was not observed in this study. Implications include possible consideration of subjective distress about perceived weight, the role that treating depression might play to reduce emotional eating among Latinas, and the need to include ethnicity and culture in research about and interventions for weight-problem perception, emotional eating, and depression.

体重问题感知是个人对自己是否超重或肥胖的自我评估，并且与情绪饮食有关，超出了自我报告的体重状况和抑郁所能解释的范围。但是，现有的研究并未在美国的拉丁裔中研究体重问题的知觉和情绪饮食。这项研究的目的是调查拉丁裔内的情绪饮食，体重问题感知，自我报告的体重状况（超重而不是超重），抑郁，适应和培养。据推测，体重问题的感知而非体重状况会导致抑郁症后情绪饮食的增加，并且文化与文化的相互作用是协变量。参与者是来自加利福尼亚东南部的268名本科生，她们分别是女性和拉丁裔。参与者完成了问卷调查以测量感兴趣的变量。结果表明，拉丁裔的情绪饮食与体重指数和抑郁呈正相关（p的≤0.05），但不是在所有与同化也不文化化（p的 ≥  0.05）。协方差分析表明，体重问题感知（p =  .10）和体重状态（p  = .05）都对情绪饮食没有显着的主要影响，而抑郁是显着的协变量（p ≤.01）。局限性包括相关设计和仅具有少量拉丁文亚组变异性的大学生样本。在未来的研究中加入精确的文化或与外观有关的变量可能可以解释为什么在这项研究中未观察到体重问题知觉与情绪饮食之间的关系。含义包括可能考虑到主观上的体重困扰，治疗抑郁症可能在拉美裔人群中减少情绪饮食，以及在权重问题感知，情绪饮食和抑郁症的研究和干预中纳入种族和文化的必要性。