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A Psychophysiological Mechanism Underlying Women’s Weight-Management Goals
- Source :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 41:930-942
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- Three studies demonstrated that conception risk was associated with increased motivations to manage weight. Consistent with the rationale that this association is due to ovulatory processes, Studies 2 and 3 demonstrated that it was moderated by hormonal contraceptive (HC) use. Consistent with the rationale that this interactive effect should emerge when modern appearance-related concerns regarding weight are salient, Study 3 used a 14-day diary to demonstrate that the interactive effects of conception risk and HC use on daily motivations to restrict eating were further moderated by daily motivations to manage body attractiveness. Finally, providing evidence that this interactive effect has implications for real behavior, daily fluctuations in the desire to restrict eating predicted daily changes in women’s self-reported eating behavior. These findings may help reconcile prior inconsistencies regarding the implications of ovulatory processes by illustrating that such implications can depend on the salience of broader social norms.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Attractiveness
Adolescent
Social Psychology
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Fertility
Body Weight Maintenance
Developmental psychology
Young Adult
Weight loss
Weight management
medicine
Humans
Association (psychology)
Menstrual Cycle
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Motivation
Salience (language)
Mechanism (biology)
Self Concept
Contraception
restrict
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Goals
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15527433 and 01461672
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....194f836713873ef8b8edd1de920a75d0