Motivational Predictors of Weight Loss and Weight-Loss Maintenance

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-126

  Williams, Geoffrey C ^a   Grow, Virginia M ^a   Freedman, Zachary R ^a   Ryan, Richard M ^a   Deci, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0029685323     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.1.115     Document Type: Article

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