Health Psychology : a Textbook

with separation in adolescence. Further, Minuchin et al. (1978) argued that although optimum autonomy does not mean breaking all ...

Therefore, feelings of being out of control need to be expressed. Body dissatisfaction may well be an expression of this lack of ...

groups of dieters and non-dieters either a high-calorie preload or a low-calorie preload. The results are illustrated in Figure ...

attempting to avoid. The causal analysis of restraint represented a new approach to eating behaviour and the prediction that res ...

of the satiety boundary are activated. The boundary model proposes a form of dual regulation, with food intake limited either by ...

questionnaire as a measure of the tendency to overeat. This also emphasized moti- vational collapse and suggested that overeatin ...

(Smart and Wegner 1999). A decision not to eat specific foods or to eat less is central to the dieter’s cognitive set. This resu ...

relapse characterized by disinhibition. This transition from lapse to relapse and the associated changes in mood and cognitions ...

‘I’m just totally hopeless and weak, and though I hate being fat I just don’t have the willpower to do anything about it’. In su ...

suggests that the preload forces the dieters to cross their diet boundary and consequently overeat. It has been suggested that t ...

Cognitive state: items were included to examine two types of cognitive state, which were hypothesized to trigger overeating. T ...

this behaviour results in weight fluctuations but not actual weight loss. Thus, actual weight loss is limited by compensatory ov ...

The dieter’s aim to eat less and consequently to lose weight is rarely achieved and this failure may be a product of changes whi ...

FURTHER READING ➧ Ogden, J. (2003). The psychology of eating. From healthy to disordered behaviour. Blackwell: Oxford. This book ...

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7 Exercise CHAPTER OVERVIEW Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing interest in the role of exercise in promotin ...

DEVELOPING THE CONTEMPORARY CONCERN WITH EXERCISE BEHAVIOUR Until the 1960s exercise was done by the young and talented and the ...

that improves fitness and physical exercise that improves health. This distinction illustrates a shift in emphasis from intensiv ...

The physical benefits of exercise Longevity Paffenbarger et al. (1986) examined the relationship between weekly energy expenditu ...

Regardless of the location of the activity, research indicates an association between physical fitness and health status. Blair ...