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Weight loss maintenance as an aspect of family emotion and process
Author(s) -
FischmannHavstad Laura,
Marston Albert R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb01300.x
Subject(s) - psychology , marital status , weight loss , clinical psychology , index (typography) , developmental psychology , demography , medicine , obesity , population , sociology , world wide web , computer science
The Expressed Emotion Index (EE) has been used with a high degree of success in predicting relapse of psychiatric patients in Great Britain. The present study examined the usefulness of EE as a predictor of weight loss maintenance in women in the United States. In a sample of 28, with a relapse rate of 50 per cent, EE correctly predicted maintenance for 78·5 per cent of the cases. A more economical, paper‐and‐pencil test of marital relationship (Relationship Style Inventory) correlated significantly with EE ( r = 0·64) but did not successfully predict weight maintenance ( r = 0·29).