Understanding the antecedents of healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviours: Grit, motivation and self-control.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the psychological antecedents or personal factors that lead to weight control behaviours that can help to develop more effective prevention strategies.

Design

The 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.

Setting

Monterrey (Nuevo León, México).

Participants

A representative sample of 1219 adults (men = 599; women = 620) aged 18-65 years (M = 29·37, sd = 11·83).

Results

Findings supported

SUBMITTER: Marentes-Castillo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991607 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature