Trial reportThe American journal of clinical nutrition2014
No food for thought: moderating effects of delay discounting and future time perspective on the relation between income and food insecurity.
Trial report in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06800794 (Effect of Meal Timing and Dietary Changes on Metabolic and Behavioral Factors Involved in the Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers.
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Effect of Meal Timing and Dietary Changes on Metabolic and Behavioral Factors Involved in the Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed.
- Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers.Journal of obesity · 2023Trial
- Medically Tailored Meal Delivery for Diabetes Patients with Food Insecurity: a Randomized Cross-over Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Trial
- Interactive Relationships Between Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies and Delay Discounting on Risky Sex.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Trial
- Sensitization of the reinforcing value of food is associated with greater BMI percentile in lower income adolescents.Appetite · 2025Observational
- Experimental biology can inform our understanding of food insecurity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Effects of Episodic Food Insecurity on Psychological and Physiological Responses in African American Women With Obesity (RESPONSES): Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
- Parents, but not their children, demonstrate greater delay discounting with resource scarcity.BMC public health · 2023Article
- A Sense of Scarcity Enhances the Above-Average Effect in Social Comparison.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Hyperbolic modeling and assessment of hypothetical health behaviors during a viral outbreak using crowdsourced samples.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- The Effect of Financial Scarcity on Reinforcer Pathology: A Dyadic Developmental Examination.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The effect of food insecurity and stress on delay discounting across families: a COVID-19 natural experiment.BMC public health · 2022Article
- The effect of acute and chronic scarcity on acute stress: A dyadic developmental examination.Physiology & behavior · 2022Article
- Sensitization of the reinforcing value of high energy density foods is associated with increased zBMI gain in adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Observational
- Factors influencing low-income households' food insecurity in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 lockdown.PloS one · 2022Article
- Delay discounting and obesity in food insecure and food secure women.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Article
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- Psychological mechanisms associated with food security status and BMI in adults: a mixed methods study.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Food insecurity and dietary diversity among lactating mothers in the urban municipality in the mountains of Nepal.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLow income is related to food insecurity, and research has suggested that a scarcity of resources associated with low income can shift attention to the present, thereby discounting the future.
objectiveWe tested whether attending to the present and discounting the future may moderate the influence of income on food insecurity.
designDelay discounting and measures of future time perspective (Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, Consideration of Future Consequences Scale, time period of financial planning, and subjective probability of living to age 75 y) were studied as moderators of the relation between income and food insecurity in a diverse sample of 975 adults, 31.8% of whom experienced some degree of food insecurity.
resultsIncome, financial planning, subjective probability of living to age 75 y, and delay discounting predicted food insecurity as well as individuals who were high in food insecurity. Three-way interactions showed that delay discounting interacted with financial planning and income to predict food insecurity (P = 0.003). At lower levels of income, food insecurity was lowest for subjects who had good financial planning skills and did not discount the future, whereas having good financial skills and discounting the future had minimal influence on food insecurity. The same 3-way interaction was observed when high food insecurity was predicted (P = 0.008).
conclusionBecause of the role of scarce resources on narrowing attention and reducing prospective thinking, research should address whether modifying future orientation may reduce food insecurity even in the face of diminishing financial resources.
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