A regulatory focus perspective on eating behavior: How prevention and promotion focus relates to emotional, external, and restrained eating

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Pfattheicher, Stefan ^a   Sassenrath, Claudia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eating behavior; Emotional eating; External eating; Prevention focus; Promotion focus; Regulatory focus; Restrained eating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923359352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01314     Document Type: Article

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