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Emotional eating is a mental health concern, common in adolescents, that develops as a result of their tendency to use high‐energy food to regulate their fluctuating emotions. Due to their highly fluctuating emotional life, adolescents tend to have unique within‐person profiles of emotional experiences that change across moments and days, often lost in global assessments of emotions. Hence, it is imperative to examine individual differences in dynamics of emotions, as experienced in daily life, in relation to emotional eating in adolescents.

In an Ecological Momentary Assessment study, we examined individual differences in three within‐person dynamic characteristics (baseline levels, intraindividual variability, and emodiversity) of emotions in 158 dominantly Hispanic adolescents in the United States, aged 14–17 years old, predicting trait‐level emotional eating.

Results indicated …