Food cravings mediate the relationship between rigid, but not flexible control of eating behavior and dieting success

Appetite

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 582-584

  Meule, Adrian ^a   Westenhöfer, Joachim ^b   Kübler, Andrea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dieting success; Flexible control; Food cravings; Mediation analysis; Rigid control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIET, REDUCING; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051649499     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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