ArticleBehaviour research and therapy2018
Targeting self-regulation to promote health behaviors in children.
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- Motivational Interviewing in Pediatric Obesity: A Meta-analysis of the Effects on Behavioral Outcomes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Self-Efficacy to Regulate Eating Behaviors Scale for Children: A Validation Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Targeted self-regulation interventions in low-income children: Clinical trial results and implications for health behavior change.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2021Trial
- Digital phenotyping for assessment and prediction of interoception, chronic stress, and self-regulation in adults: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Instability in the environment and children's in-school self-regulatory behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Self-control for maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors associated with serum lipid levels in preadolescent children in Japan: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Transition from Paediatric to adult health services: Aspirations and practices of human flourishing.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Associations among maternal lifetime trauma, psychological symptoms in pregnancy, and infant stress reactivity and regulation.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Children's eating behaviours and related constructs: conceptual and theoretical foundations and their implications.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Review
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- Is online self-regulatory training effective in weight control? A pilot experiment on adolescence obesity during coronavirus-19 lockdown.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Associations between Emotion Regulation, Feeding Practices, and Preschoolers' Food Consumption.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Editorial: Conceptualizing and measuring appetite self-regulation and its development in infancy and childhood.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Self-care research: Where are we now? Where are we going?International journal of nursing studies · 2021Article
- Associations Between Independent Assessments of Child Appetite Self-Regulation: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
- Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Effects of Emotion Regulation, Weight Status and Negative Body Image.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Getting to the heart of food craving with resting heart rate variability in adolescents.Appetite · 2020Article
- Emotion regulation strategies predict weight loss during an inpatient obesity treatment for adolescents.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
- Adolescents' Addictive Phone Use: Associations with Eating Behaviors and Adiposity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Poor self-regulation (i.e., inability to harness cognitive, emotional, motivational resources to achieve goals) is hypothesized to contribute to unhealthy behaviors across the lifespan. Enhancing early self-regulation may increase positive health outcomes. Obesity is a major public health concern with early-emerging precursors related to self-regulation; it is therefore a good model for understanding self-regulation and health behavior. Preadolescence is a transition when children increase autonomy in health behaviors (e.g., eating, exercise habits), many of which involve self-regulation. This paper presents the scientific rationale for examining self-regulation mechanisms that are hypothesized to relate to health behaviors, specifically obesogenic eating, that have not been examined in children. We describe novel intervention protocols designed to enhance self-regulation skills, specifically executive functioning, emotion regulation, future-oriented thinking, and approach bias. Interventions are delivered via home visits. Assays of self-regulation and obesogenic eating behaviors using behavioral tasks and self-reports are implemented and evaluated to determine feasibility and psychometrics and to test intervention effects. Participants are low-income 9-12 year-old children who have been phenotyped for self-regulation, stress, eating behavior and adiposity through early childhood. Study goals are to examine intervention effects on self-regulation and whether change in self-regulation improves obesogenic eating.
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