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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"dieting"”.
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The influence of sociocultural and interpersonal factors on body image disturbance and unhealthy dieting in female adolescents
Body image disturbance and unhealthy dieting in adolescent females are areas of particular concern for mental health professionals, teachers, and parents. Many theories have been developed to explain body image disturbance and unhealthy dieting, in which sociocultural pressure and interpersonal …
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Evaluation of a one year long, non-dieting, physical activity based lifestyle intervention programme for clinically obese women
… – This PhD examined the effects of a non-dieting exercise-based lifestyle intervention programme (e.g. no calorie-restriction) using the tenets of the self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985b) to inform intervention decisions and identify individual differences (e.g. SDT was used …
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Blogging in the Fatosphere: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions of Personal Risks and Benefits for Women who Blog about Weight, Weight Loss, and Dieting Issues
… of women who blog about weight, weight loss, and dieting issues. Many overweight women use blogs as a tool during their weight loss journeys to garner support. The experiences of 5 women who blog about weight and dieting issues were collected through 45 minute in-depth interviews. The author's own …
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Relationship between Semi-Starvation Symptoms, Self-Efficacy, and Weight Loss
… symptomatology, self-efficacy, and future dieting behavior were also investigated. Forty college students (21 female, Mage = 19.58 years, SD= 1.85) self-reported caloric intake and completed self-efficacy measures and physical symptom reports for three weeks. Results indicated that weekly …
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Inter-generational transmission of values regarding weight, shape and appearance
Many studies have shown that dieting behaviour is popular amongst adolescent girls and there is a growing body of researchw hich suggests that similar patterns of dieting behaviour can be found in girls as young as 9 or 10. Although adolescent dieting is common relatively little is known about the …
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Implicit Theories of Weight Management: A Social Cognitive Approach to Motivation
… coping and self-regulation strategies following dieting setbacks. To test these hypotheses, I first developed the Implicit Theories of Weight Management Scale and examined its psychometric properties. Results revealed internal reliability and convergent and discriminant validity. Implicit …
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An evaluation of social-cognitive factors in dietary restraint, smoking, and weight control smoking
… main effects of dietary restraint and smoking on dieting- and smoking-related social-cognitive variables. In addition, there were significant group differences for several social-cognitive variables related to weight control smoking. Overall, the results indicated significant main effects of …
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LIFESTYLE CHOICES RELATED TO FOOD CONSUMPTION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEPRESSION
<p>Dieting, or the act of restricting oneself to small amounts or particular kinds of foods on the basis of health, spirituality, lifestyle, and moral decisions, is a practice that dates to 1066 A.D. However, with social media being as influential as it is, one might believe dieting is a new …
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Evaluation of a peer leader eating disorders prevention program for college sororities
… in each house completed assessments of dieting behavior, dietary restraint, body image esteem, and health behavior self-efficacy on two occasions. Two sororities received the peer leader preventive intervention between these testing times while the other two sororities served as …
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Menstrual cycle dysfunction and weight loss practices among college-age women
… disorder, served as subjects. Food-intake, dieting behavior, and menstrual cycle function were recorded by subjects during a three month period. Biweekly blood samples were assayed for estradiol and progesterone for one menstrual cycle. Mean age, number of years dieting, and BMI were similar …
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"I Wish I Looked Like Her:" the endless pursuit for the ideal body
… body image satisfaction, appearance concerns, dieting and eating behaviors, and thinness ideals between participants who were exposed to depictions of models in fashion magazines and those who were not. It was hypothesized that those exposed to images of women in beauty and fashion magazines …
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Promoting healthy eating among college women: Effectiveness of an intuitive eating intervention
… follow-up periods on intuitive eating practices, dieting, body image effects, and disordered eating attitudes. Eating self-efficacy and emotional awareness were also examined as potential moderators of the intuitive eating intervention. Survey data was analyzed using a mixed ANOVA model to test …
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Rehabilitation of obesity
… overfeeding in infancy and childhood, repeated dieting, inactivity, lifestyle and psychosocial conditions all contribute to the incidence of obesity.
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Body image and appearance management among older married dyads: factors influencing body image in the aging process
… appearance management practices---exercise, dieting, use of anti-aging products and techniques, daily grooming, and apparel-related behavior---were studied. Personal and relationship factors explained for influence on older persons' body image were aging-related physical changes, health, …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
… the mundane practices of cooking, eating, and dieting. As I argue throughout this thesis, food history is about much more than an economic shift from ‘plain fare’ to food ‘fusion’. Situating food customs as crucial sites of meaning-making, I explore how food was experienced and shaped into …
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It's Not the Load That Breaks You Down, It's the Way You Carry It: An Examination of the Relationship between Negative Identity and Consumer Behavior
… identity self-importance will express greater dieting self-efficacy and identity-incongruent evaluations of high calorie food items. I also experimentally manipulate weight identity self-importance to demonstrate that these effects can be generalized to members of a particular weight status …
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Factors associated with calcium intake in adolescent athletes
… friends, health experts, media), lifestyle, dieting behaviour, modelling behaviour and social and non-social reinforcement). Body composition was assessed using skinfold measurements. The athletes competed at a minimum of a provincial level in either gymnastics (males =25, females =32) or …
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Weight-preoccupied and not-weight-preoccupied college women: a study of body weight and body image
… greater tendency to use potentially-dangerous dieting methods and to report a "desired" body image that was extremely thin. On average, the "desired" image was 86.69% of the "actual" image for the WP subjects; it was 93.45% of the actual for the NWP subjects. It is suggested that …
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