کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
906970 917036 2006 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Why obese children cannot resist food: The role of impulsivity
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Why obese children cannot resist food: The role of impulsivity
چکیده انگلیسی

Facing the undesirable health consequences of being obese, an important question is why some people are not able to resist eating to excess. It is theorized that increased impulsivity at least partly underlies the inability to control eating behaviour; being more impulsive is supposed to make it more difficult to resist food intake. Thirty-three obese children in a residential setting and 31 lean control children are tested. Impulsivity is measured with two behavioural measures (inhibitory control and sensitivity to reward) and questionnaires. Results show that the obese children in treatment were more sensitive to reward and showed less inhibitory control than normal weight children. In addition, the obese children with eating binges were more impulsive than the obese children without eating binges. Most interesting finding was that the children that were the least effective in inhibiting responses, lost less weight in the residential treatment program. To conclude: impulsivity is a personality characteristic that potentially has crucial consequences for the development and maintenance, as well as treatment of obesity.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Eating Behaviors - Volume 7, Issue 4, November 2006, Pages 315–322
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