Emotional distress about weight gain and attitude to goal achievement failure as predictors of self-regulatory efficacy: Does ethnicity make a difference?

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-904

  Moore, David J ^a   Williams, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; ethnicity; goal achievement failure; self regulation

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEGRO; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052289153     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: 14617277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359105310394228     Document Type: Article

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