ArticleBritish journal of health psychology2021
Does self-compassion help to deal with dietary lapses among overweight and obese adults who pursue weight-loss goals?
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- Applying Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to Understand Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
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- Reframing Diabetes Prevention: From Body Shaming to Metabolic Reprogramming.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Review
- Goal pursuit increases more after dietary success than after dietary failure: examining conflicting theories of self-regulation using ecological momentary assessment.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- The role of self-compassion and its individual components in adaptive responses to dietary lapses.Appetite · 2023Article
- Internalized weight stigma in women with class III obesity: A randomized controlled trial of a virtual lifestyle modification intervention followed by a mindful self-compassion intervention.Obesity science & practice · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesSelf-compassion can facilitate self-improvement motivation. We examined the effects of self-compassion in response to dietary lapses on outcomes relevant to weight-loss strivings using a longitudinal design. The indirect effects of self-compassion via guilt and shame were also explored.
designAn Ecological Momentary Assessment methodology was employed with a sample of adults who were overweight or obese attempting to lose weight via dietary restriction (N = 56; M
methodsDietary temptations and lapses were assessed at each diary entry, and self-compassion in response to dietary lapses, intention to continue dieting, weight-loss-related self-efficacy, negative reactions to the lapse, and self-conscious emotions were surveyed on occasions when participants reported having experienced a dietary lapse. The participants were also weighed in a laboratory prior to the EMA phase and via self-report straight after the EMA phase. Weight was measured again in the laboratory 12 weeks after the EMA period.
resultsBayesian multilevel path analyses showed that self-compassion did not predict weight loss. However, at the within-person level, self-compassion was positively related to intentions and self-efficacy to continue dieting, and negatively related to negative affective reactions to the lapses. Guilt mediated the associations of self-compassion with intention, self-efficacy, and negative reactions.
conclusionSelf-compassion may be a powerful internal resource to cultivate when dieters experience inevitable setbacks during weight-loss strivings which could facilitate weight-loss perseverance.
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