Weight loss as a function of treatment and personality variables.
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Title
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Weight loss as a function of treatment and personality variables.
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Identifier
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AAI9521261
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identifier
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9521261
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Creator
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Darlington, Diana Attardo.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Charles P. Smith
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Personality | Psychology, Social | Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This study investigates weight loss as a function of treatment and personality variables. Hypotheses deal with the relationship to weight loss, weight fluctuation, and attendance of two types of group treatment (Behavioral and Support) and individual differences in eating styles, socially-desirable responding, field independence, verbal ability, and depression.;The participants were 159, primarily middle-class, female volunteers aged 19 to 53, recruited for a 12-week weight loss program. Pretests included the Eating Inventory (Stunkard & Messick, 1988), the Group Embedded Figures Test (Witkin, Oltman, Raskin, & Karp, 1971), the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1967), the vocabulary subscale of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Revised (Wechsler, 1981), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Devins & Orme, 1985). Participants were assigned to treatment group by a random procedure. Because of schedule disruptions, only data for the first eight sessions were analyzed. The analysis of attendance and attrition included 107 participants who attended at least one session; only 48 were eligible for inclusion in the analyses to predict weight loss and weight fluctuation.;Multiple regression analyses revealed that Behavioral treatment resulted in greater weight loss than Support treatment (p =.03), and that disinhibited eating style interacted with treatment in the prediction of weight loss (p =.03). Field independence was also significantly related to weight loss (p =.02). Vocabulary I.Q. predicted continuing in treatment (p =.002). None of the other variables was predictive of weight loss or attendance, and no person or treatment variables predicted weight fluctuation.;The results appear to have identified two subgroups of obese persons: those with high field independence scores, who appear to be able to lose weight in either type of treatment, and those with low disinhibition eating style scores, for whom behavioral treatment appears to be clearly more effective.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
