Obesity and the four facets of impulsivity
| Autor: | Christelle Thiéry, Crépin C, Olivia Mobbs, Alain Golay, Martial Van der Linden |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Questionnaires 050103 clinical psychology Time Factors Psychometrics Statistics as Topic Psychological intervention Overweight Impulsivity Developmental psychology Body Mass Index Feeding and Eating Disorders 03 medical and health sciences Eating Overweight/psychology 0302 clinical medicine ddc:150 Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Sensation seeking Health Status Indicators Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Obesity Eating Disorders/psychology ddc:613 Motivation 05 social sciences Cognition General Medicine medicine.disease ddc:128.37 Eating disorders Case-Control Studies Impulsive Behavior Female medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Obesity/psychology |
| Zdroj: | Patient Education and Counseling, Vol. 79, No 3 (2010) pp. 372-377 |
| ISSN: | 0738-3991 |
| Popis: | Objective Obesity is a complex condition involving biological, psychological, sociocultural and environmental components. Impulsivity seems to be a particularly important factor. Whiteside and Lynam recently proposed dividing impulsivity into four separate dimensions: Urgency, lack of Premeditation, lack of Perseverance and Sensation Seeking (associated with a tendency to exaggerate the impact of rewards). The objective of this article is to examine how obesity and eating disorder symptoms may be related to the four facets of impulsivity. Methods Whiteside and Lynam's Impulsive Behavior Scale, the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire and the Mizes Anorectic Cognitions Questionnaire were used to explore the association between the cognitive and motivational facets of impulsivity and obesity in 47 overweight or obese persons with eating disorders and 47 normal-weight controls. Results Results suggest that overweight and obese persons have higher levels of Urgency, lack of Perseverance and Sensitivity to Reward. Conclusion These results suggest that obese and overweight persons have difficulty inhibiting automatic or dominant behavior and intrusive thoughts and a higher sensitivity to reward. Practice implications Overweight and obese persons may benefit from psychological interventions targeting self-control problems associated with impulsive eating behaviors. |
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