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A problematic counter‐regulation experiment: Implications for the link between dietary restraint and overeating
Author(s) -
Dritschel Barbara,
Cooper Peter J.,
Charnock Deborah
Publication year - 1993
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(199304)13:3<297::aid-eat2260130308>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - overeating , dieting , psychology , binge eating , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , eating disorders , obesity , weight loss , medicine , endocrinology
The current study failed to find any evidence of laboratory counter‐regulation amongst restrained eaters given a preload, regardless of the measures of dietary restraint used to classify subjects, including dieting status on the day of the study. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that high restrainers characteristically overeat or experience a sense of loss of control over eating in naturalistic settings. These findings indicate that the link between dietary restraint and overeating or bulimic episodes is, at most, a weak one. Future investigations must incorporate more detailed and sensitive measures of both restraint and overeating if analogue studies are to be useful for understanding the process involved in clinically significant episodes of overeating or binge eating. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.