Journal article
Dietary concern, weight fluctuation and weight status: Further explorations of the restraint scale
Behaviour research and therapy, v 22(3), pp 243-248
1984
PMID: 6466274
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Abstract
The theory of restrained eating predicts that the Dietary Concern and Weight Fluctuation factors of the Restraint Scale should correlate with percentage overweight. However, Drewnowski, Riskey and Desor (1982) recently found that only Weight Fluctuation did in fact. The current study replicated that of Drewnowski
el al. using a population which more closely resembled the one used in prior research on restraint. Correlations were computed between Restraint scores and both overweight and weight suppression, a second validational criterion with which indices of restraint should be related. Furthermore, since Drewnowski
et al.'s results imply that it is Weight History rather than Dietary Concern which might be responsible for behavioral differences in restrained and unrestrained normals, the history of overweight among these two groups was examined. Contrary to Drewnowski
et al., Dietary Concern was more strongly related to overweight than was Weight Fluctuation. Both factors correlated with weight suppression. Restrained normals had a much greater history of overweight than unrestrained normals, suggesting that previously observed similarities in behavior between restrained normals and obese individuals might be due to characteristics associated with the former group's prior overweight rather than with their current level of cognitive restraint.
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- Title
- Dietary concern, weight fluctuation and weight status: Further explorations of the restraint scale
- Creators
- Michael R Lowe - Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, U.S.A
- Publication Details
- Behaviour research and therapy, v 22(3), pp 243-248
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1984SX41900004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0021245506
- Other Identifier
- 991014877762404721
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