Journal article
Multiple types of dieting prospectively predict weight gain during the freshman year of college
Appetite, v 47(1), pp 83-90
Jul 2006
PMID: 16650913
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Abstract
The freshman year of college is a period of heightened risk for weight gain. This study examined measures of restrained eating, disinhibition, and emotional eating as predictors of weight gain during the freshman year. Using Lowe's multi-factorial model of dieting, it also examined three different types of dieting as predictors of weight gain. Sixty-nine females were assessed at three points during the school year. Weight gain during the freshman year averaged 2.1kg. None of the traditional self-report measures of restraint, disinhibition, or emotional eating were predictive of weight gain. However, both a history of weight loss dieting and weight suppression (discrepancy between highest weight ever and current weight) predicted greater weight gain, and these effects appeared to be largely independent of one another. Individuals who said they were currently dieting to lose weight gained twice as much (5.0kg) as former dieters (2.5kg) and three times as much as never dieters (1.6kg), but the import of this finding was unclear because there was only a small number of current dieters (N=7). Overall the results indicate that specific subtypes of dieting predicts weight gain during the freshman year better than more global measures of restraint or overeating.
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- Title
- Multiple types of dieting prospectively predict weight gain during the freshman year of college
- Creators
- Michael R Lowe - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USARachel A Annunziato - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USAJessica Tuttman Markowitz - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USAElizabeth Didie - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USADara L Bellace - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USALynn Riddell - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USACaralynn Maille - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USAShortie McKinney - Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USAEric Stice - Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Blvd., Eugene, Oregon, OA 97403, USA
- Publication Details
- Appetite, v 47(1), pp 83-90
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology); [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000239747400011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33745957405
- Other Identifier
- 991014878215304721
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- Behavioral Sciences
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