Weight maintenance: Self-regulatory factors underpinning success and failure

Psychology and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1207-1223

  McKee, Heather ^a   Ntoumanis, Nikos ^a   Smith, Brett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

goal setting; self control; self regulation; weight loss maintenance

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84885947395     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2013.799162     Document Type: Article

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