ArticlePublic health nutrition2022
Understanding the antecedents of healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviours: Grit, motivation and self-control.
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- Self-control and grit: associations with weight management and healthy habits.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Trial
- Fear of Fat, Processes of Change, and Weight-Related Behaviors in Mexican and Spanish Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Towards a Healthy Diet in an Adolescent Population: The Mediating Role of Motivation and Perceived Barriers between Self-Efficacy and Weight Regulation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Physical Activity, Healthy Behavior and Its Motivational Correlates: Exploring the Spillover Effect through Stages of Change.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo understand the psychological antecedents or personal factors that lead to weight control behaviours that can help to develop more effective prevention strategies.
designThe present correlational study has a non-experimental, quantitative, cross-sectional design. A model was tested considering types of motivation (autonomous motivation, controlled motivation and amotivation) as mediators in the relationship between the Grit personality and healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviours, with self-control as a moderator in the aforementioned indirect effects.
settingMonterrey (Nuevo León, México).
participantsA representative sample of 1219 adults (men = 599; women = 620) aged 18-65 years (M = 29·37, sd = 11·83).
resultsFindings supported the mediator role of the types of motivation. Specifically, Grit showed a positive indirect effect on healthy weight control behaviours through autonomous motivation. Conversely, Grit showed a negative indirect effect on unhealthy weight control behaviours through autonomous motivation. Furthermore, findings supported the moderator role of self-control in the relationship between amotivation and healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviours.
conclusionsThis study provides evidence for the key role of Grit in the adoption of healthy or unhealthy control behaviours, as well as the role of autonomous motivation in the development of healthy behaviours.
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