SynthesisHealth psychology review2016
What is the psychological impact of self-weighing? A meta-analysis.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Daily self-weighing compared with an active control causes greater negative affective lability in emerging adult women: A randomized trial.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2023Trial
- Introducing Dietary Self-Monitoring to Undergraduate Women via a Calorie Counting App Has No Effect on Mental Health or Health Behaviors: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2021Trial
- The experiences of postnatal women and healthcare professionals of a brief weight management intervention embedded within the national child immunisation programme.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Trial
- A novel interactive mobile health support system for pediatric obesity treatment: a randomized controlled feasibility trial.BMC pediatrics · 2020Trial
- Nutrient and Discretionary Food Intake in Vegan Adult Australians: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrition bulletin · 2026Article
- Psychological and behavioral responses to daily weight gain during behavioral weight loss treatment.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- A low-burden, self-weighing intervention to prevent weight gain in adults with obesity who do not enroll in comprehensive treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Patient perceptions of three-dimensional (3D) surface imaging technology and traditional methods used to assess anthropometry.Obesity pillars · 2024Article
- Family based behavioral treatment in adolescents suffering from obesity: evolution through adulthood.BMC pediatrics · 2024Observational
- Examining demographic and psychosocial factors related to self-weighing behavior during pregnancy and postpartum periods.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Correlates of weight-related self-monitoring application use during emerging adulthood in a population-based sample.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Is there a difference in body size dissatisfaction between the patients with obesity seeking and not seeking treatment for obesity?BMC public health · 2021Article
- Self-weighing among young adults: who weighs themselves and for whom does weighing affect mood? A cross-sectional study of a population-based sample.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Minority and low-income patients are less likely to have a scale for self-weighing in their home: A survey in primary care.Clinical obesity · 2020Article
- Experiences of African American Breast Cancer Survivors Using Digital Scales and Activity Trackers in a Weight Gain Prevention Intervention: Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
- Analysing self-regulatory behaviours in response to daily weighing: a think-aloud study with follow-up interviews.Psychology & health · 2020Article
- Eating pathology and psychological outcomes in young adults in self-regulation interventions using daily self-weighing.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Article
- Changes in the Perceptions of Self-weighing Across Time in a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2018Article
- Why Do People Act Like the Proverbial Ostrich? Investigating the Reasons That People Provide for Not Monitoring Their Goal Progress.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Many people self-weigh and many interventions addressing weight-related problems such as obesity promote self-weighing. However, while self-weighing has been associated with weight loss, there is mixed evidence regarding the psychological impact of this behaviour. The present review aimed to quantify the relationship between self-weighing and: (i) affect (e.g., anxiety, depression); (ii) psychological functioning (e.g., self-esteem); (iii) body-related attitudes and (iv) disordered eating. A computerized search of scientific databases in September 2014 and subsequent ancestry and citation searches identified 29 independent tests of the relationship between self-weighing on psychological outcomes. Meta-analysis was used to quantify the size of the association across the tests. Results indicated that there was no association between self-weighing and affect, body-related attitudes or disordered eating. There was, however, a small-sized negative association between self-weighing and psychological functioning. The age of participants, obesity status, the extent of weight loss, duration of self-weighing and study design (RCT versus correlational) were found to influence at least some of the psychological outcomes of self-weighing. The findings suggest that, for the most part, self-weighing is not associated with adverse psychological outcomes. However, in some cases the association between self-weighing and psychological outcomes may be more negative than in others.
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