Department of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
Appetite. 2011 Dec;57(3):582-4. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.07.013. Epub 2011 Jul 29.
Both food cravings and rigid dietary control strategies have been implicated in low dieting success while flexible control often is associated with successful weight loss. An online survey was conducted (N=616) to test the mediational role of food cravings between dietary control strategies and self-perceived dieting success. Food cravings fully mediated the inverse relationship between rigid control and dieting success. Contrarily, flexible control predicted dieting success independently of food cravings, which were negatively associated with dieting success. Differential mechanisms underlie the relationship between rigid and flexible control of eating behavior and dieting success.
人们认为，对食物的强烈渴望和严格的饮食控制策略都与节食的低成功率有关，而灵活的控制策略通常与成功的减肥有关。本研究通过在线调查（N=616）检验了食物渴望在饮食控制策略和自我感知节食成功之间的中介作用。结果表明，食物渴望完全中介了严格控制和节食成功之间的反向关系。相反，灵活的控制策略可以独立于食物渴望预测节食成功，而食物渴望与节食成功呈负相关。饮食行为的严格控制和灵活控制与节食成功的关系存在不同的机制。
