Journal article
Personal history of dieting and family history of obesity are unrelated: implications for understanding weight gain proneness
Eating behaviors : an international journal, v 17, pp 144-148
Apr 2015
PMID: 25725461
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Abstract
Identifying predictors of future weight gain is important in obesity prevention efforts. Both family history of obesity and personal dieting history have been established as predictors of future weight gain; however, it is unknown if they are independent or overlapping predictors. The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of overlap between these two predictors using cross-sectional data. Baseline data from four studies were examined separately and in combination for a total of 561 female participants, and analyses were conducted to examine parent anthropometric variables by dieting status within and across studies. All participants were female university students between the ages of 17 and 30. For each study, as well as for the entire sample combined, parent anthropometric variables were examined by dieting status using factorial ANOVAs. No meaningful pattern was found when examining parent anthropometric variables by dieting status, which suggests that the two risk factors are largely independent. This suggests that the processes associated with the development of future weight gain by each variable are different; therefore, future research should use a longitudinal study to test the hypothesis that using both variables to predict future weight gain would account for more variance than using either variable alone.
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- Title
- Personal history of dieting and family history of obesity are unrelated: implications for understanding weight gain proneness
- Creators
- M R Lowe - Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Stratton Hall, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: lowe@drexel.eduL M Shank - Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Stratton Hall, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAR Mikorski - Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Stratton Hall, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAM L Butryn - Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Stratton Hall, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Publication Details
- Eating behaviors : an international journal, v 17, pp 144-148
- Publisher
- Elsevier; United States
- Grant note
- R01 DK072982 / NIDDK NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology); Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science (WELL) [Historical]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000351834000031
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84923334322
- Other Identifier
- 991014877997204721
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- Psychiatry
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