Worry as an Inhibitor of Dietary Restraint

Autor:	Richard M. Nicki, Yvette S. Scattolon
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Behaviour change media_common.quotation_subject Food consumption Cognition General Medicine Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology medicine Trait anxiety Ingestion medicine.symptom Worry Psychology Alcohol consumption Dieting media_common
Zdroj:	Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 23:25-33
ISSN:	1469-1833 1352-4658
DOI:	10.1017/s1352465800017604
Popis:	Previous researchers have identified disinhibiting agents of restrained eating such as the ingestion of preloads, alcohol consumption, and negative affect. This study investigated worry as a purely cognitive inhibitor of dietary restraint. Seventy-five subjects who were screened as being high worriers and high restrainers were randomly assigned to three groups: eating-related worry; social-evaluative/school-related worry; non-worry. Subjects were induced to either worry or to think pleasant thoughts, and then take part in a bogus taste-test. Food consumption in worry-prone, chronic dieters was found to be triggered more by social-evaluative/school-related worries than by eating-related worries, or pleasant thoughts. Chronic dieting and worrying were found to be substantially related to measures of bulimic tendencies and trait anxiety, respectively. These findings may be germane to behaviour change programmes pertaining to bulimia.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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