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A regulatory focus perspective on eating behavior: how prevention and promotion focus relates to emotional, external, and restrained eating

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, November 2014
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Title
A regulatory focus perspective on eating behavior: how prevention and promotion focus relates to emotional, external, and restrained eating
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Frontiers in Psychology, November 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01314
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Authors

Stefan Pfattheicher, Claudia Sassenrath

Abstract

By applying regulatory focus theory (RFT) to the context of eating behavior, the present research examines the relations between individual differences in the two motivational orientations as conceptualized in RFT, that is, prevention-focused and promotion-focused self-regulation and emotional, external, and restrained eating. Building on a representative study conducted in the Netherlands (N = 4,230), it is documented that individual differences in prevention focus are positively related to emotional eating whereas negligible associations are found in regards to external and restrained eating. Individual differences in promotion focus are positively related to external eating whereas negligible associations are found in regards to emotional and restrained eating. In relating RFT to different eating styles we were able to document significant relations of basic self-regulatory orientations with regard to essential daily behavior associated with health and well-being. The implications for changing eating styles are discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Russia 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 80 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 23 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 27 32%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 7%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 29 35%
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#13,542,652
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#12,767
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#176,772
of 366,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#215
of 349 outputs
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