{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Miller AL"],"funding":["NICHD NIH HHS","NIDDK NIH HHS","National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science of Behavior Change Common Fund Program"],"pagination":["71-81"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5801044"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["101"],"pubmed_abstract":["Poor self-regulation (i.e., inability to harness cognitive, emotional, motivational resources to achieve goals) is hypothesized to contribute to unhealthy behaviors across the lifespan. Enhancing early self-regulation may increase positive health outcomes. Obesity is a major public health concern with early-emerging precursors related to self-regulation; it is therefore a good model for understanding self-regulation and health behavior. Preadolescence is a transition when children increase autonomy in health behaviors (e.g., eating, exercise habits), many of which involve self-regulation. This paper presents the scientific rationale for examining self-regulation mechanisms that are hypothesized to relate to health behaviors, specifically obesogenic eating, that have not been examined in children. We describe novel intervention protocols designed to enhance self-regulation skills, specifically executive functioning, emotion regulation, future-oriented thinking, and approach bias. Interventions are delivered via home visits. Assays of self-regulation and obesogenic eating behaviors using behavioral tasks and self-reports are implemented and evaluated to determine feasibility and psychometrics and to test intervention effects. Participants are low-income 9-12 year-old children who have been phenotyped for self-regulation, stress, eating behavior and adiposity through early childhood. Study goals are to examine intervention effects on self-regulation and whether change in self-regulation improves obesogenic eating."],"journal":["Behaviour research and therapy"],"pubmed_title":["Targeting self-regulation to promote health behaviors in children."],"pmcid":["PMC5801044"],"funding_grant_id":["UH2 HD087979","P30 DK092926","P30 DK020572","UH3 HD087979","NICHD UH2HD087979"],"pubmed_authors":["Gearhardt AN","Miller AL","Kaciroti N","Katz B","Shapiro LF","Hunter C","Holden K","Lumeng JC","Fredericks EM","Gonzalez R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Targeting self-regulation to promote health behaviors in children.","description":"Poor self-regulation (i.e., inability to harness cognitive, emotional, motivational resources to achieve goals) is hypothesized to contribute to unhealthy behaviors across the lifespan. Enhancing early self-regulation may increase positive health outcomes. Obesity is a major public health concern with early-emerging precursors related to self-regulation; it is therefore a good model for understanding self-regulation and health behavior. Preadolescence is a transition when children increase autonomy in health behaviors (e.g., eating, exercise habits), many of which involve self-regulation. This paper presents the scientific rationale for examining self-regulation mechanisms that are hypothesized to relate to health behaviors, specifically obesogenic eating, that have not been examined in children. We describe novel intervention protocols designed to enhance self-regulation skills, specifically executive functioning, emotion regulation, future-oriented thinking, and approach bias. Interventions are delivered via home visits. Assays of self-regulation and obesogenic eating behaviors using behavioral tasks and self-reports are implemented and evaluated to determine feasibility and psychometrics and to test intervention effects. Participants are low-income 9-12 year-old children who have been phenotyped for self-regulation, stress, eating behavior and adiposity through early childhood. Study goals are to examine intervention effects on self-regulation and whether change in self-regulation improves obesogenic eating.","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Feb","modification":"2025-05-31T22:41:04.273Z","creation":"2025-05-31T22:41:04.273Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5801044","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29050636"],"doi":["10.1016/j.brat.2017.09.008"]}}