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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie
• Ntoumanis, Nikos
• Cumming, Jennifer
• Chatzisarantis, Nikos L. D.

Titel

When feeling attractive matters too much to women: A process underpinning the relation between psychological need satisfaction and unhealthy weight control behaviors

Ist Teil von

• Motivation and emotion, 2011-12, Vol.35 (4), p.413-422

Ort / Verlag

Boston: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study examined a process model linking psychological need satisfaction to unhealthy weight control behaviors. Female University students ( N  = 220; M age = 20.47; SD = 5.07) completed questionnaires measuring need satisfaction, appearance-contingent self-worth, weight-related appearance anxiety and unhealthy weight control behaviors. Structural equation modeling revealed that need satisfaction indirectly related to engagement in unhealthy weight control behaviors through appearance-contingent self-worth and weight-related appearance anxiety. The results indicate that appearance-contingent self-worth might help to explain how low levels of psychological need satisfaction are related to maladaptive weight-related outcomes in young women.