Kirschenbaum D S, Dykman B M
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
J Abnorm Psychol. 1991 May;100(2):227-30. doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.100.2.227.
Restrained eaters who reported consistent use of a variety of self-control skills were expected to avoid disinhibited eating in a high-risk situation better than were restrained eaters, who reportedly used fewer self-control skills. Eighty women were selected as subjects on the basis of their scores on the Revised Restraint Scale and the Self-Control Schedule. A 2 x 2 design was used: Restraint (high, low) x Self-Control (high, low). Subjects participated in the usual "preload + taste-test" restraint paradigm. Restrained eaters who reported high self-control skills disinhibited their eating significantly more (not less, as expected) than all other groups.
