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Thoughts about food and their: Relationship to obesity and weight control
Author(s) -
Israel Allen C.,
Stolmaker Laurie,
Andrian Cynthia A. G.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198511)4:4<549::aid-eat2260040414>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - weight loss , psychology , cognition , obesity , weight control , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry
Participants drawn from two separate populations completed an instrument designed to measure food‐and‐eating‐related cognitions. Responses of both undergraduates and participants in a commercial weight‐loss program supported the distinction between thoughts that are facilitative and problematic regarding weight‐loss efforts. Among the undergraduate sample food‐related thoughts were more predominant among heavier individuals. Weight loss among participants in the weight loss program was related to the prevalence of problematic (negative) cognitions. The results are discussed in terms of the assumptions underlying cognitive contributions to behavioral weight‐loss programs.