1. Women’s regulation styles for eating behaviors and outcomes: The mediating role of approach and avoidance food planning.
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Otis, Nancy and Pelletier, Luc G.
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NATIONAL self-determination , *FOOD habits , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *OUTCOME assessment (Social services) , *PLANNING , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) - Abstract
The purpose of this article was to examine the role played by different orientations in planning for eating behaviors as mediators of the relationship between regulation styles and eating behaviors. In Study 1, a new scale was developed to assess approach food planning and avoidance food planning. Results from confirmatory analyses ( N = 241) supported the two-factor structure of the scale. In Study 2 ( N = 202), in agreement with past research on the effects of autonomous and controlled motivation for the regulation of eating behaviors, we found that approach food planning partially mediated the effects of autonomous regulation for eating behaviors on healthy eating behaviors, while avoidance food planning partially mediated the effects of controlled regulation for eating behaviors on dysfunctional eating behaviors. Implications of these results for self-determination theory and for promoting healthy eating behaviors are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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