Relating goal-directed behaviour to grazing in persons with obesity with and without eating disorder features.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both obesity and eating disorders (ED) have been associated with reductions in purposeful, flexible goal-directed behaviour, and with an overreliance on more rigid habitual behaviour. It is currently unknown whether grazing, an eating style which is common in both conditions, is related to goal-directed behaviour. The current study therefore aimed to relate grazing to goal-directed behaviour in a group of participants with obesity with and without ED features, compared to a healthy-weight control group.

Methods

Participants (N = 87; 67.8% women, mean age 28.57 years), of whom 19 had obesity and significant eating disorder features, 25 had obesity but without marked eating disorder features, and 43 were age- and sex-matched healthy-weight controls, completed

SUBMITTER: Heriseanu AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7528325 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature