1. Regulatory Focus, Proximity to Goal Weight, and Weight Loss Maintenance.
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Fuglestad, Paul T., Rothman, Alexander J., Jeffery, Robert W., and Sherwood, Nancy E.
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REGULATION of body weight ,GOAL (Psychology) ,MATHEMATICAL models ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,RESEARCH funding ,WEIGHT loss ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,THEORY ,BODY mass index ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials ,MAXIMUM likelihood statistics ,DATA analysis software ,STATISTICAL models ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The article reviews an investigation published in a 2015 issue of the "American Journal of Health Behavior" that examined whether regulatory focus and proximity to weight moderated the effectiveness of a weight-loss maintenance intervention. Topics include the finding that maintenance of weight loss may be enhanced by tailoring treatments to regulatory focus and goal weight. Also mentioned is regulatory focus theory proposing two self-regulatory orientations of promotion and prevention foci.
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- 2015
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