Ruddock, Helen K., Christiansen, Paul, Jones, Andrew, Robinson, Eric, Field, Matt and Hardman, Charlotte A. (2016) Believing in food addiction: helpful or counter-productive for eating behaviour? [Data Collection]
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These datasets and SPSS syntax are supporting material to Ruddock, H.K., Christiansen, P., Jones, A., Robinson, E., Field.M., & Hardman, C.A. (in press). Believing in Food Addiction: helpful or counterproductive for eating behavior? Obesity. Objective: Obesity is often attributed to an addiction to food and many people believe them-selves to be “food addicts”. However little is known about how such beliefs may affect dietary control and weight management. The current research examined the impact of experimentally manipulating participants’ personal food addiction beliefs on eating behavior. Methods: In two studies, female participants (Study 1:N=64;Study 2:N=90) completed food-related computerized tasks and were given bogus feedback on their performance which indi-cated that they had high-, low- or average- food addiction tendencies. Food intake was then assessed in an ad-libitum taste test. Dietary concern, and time-taken to complete the taste test, were also recorded in Study 2. Results: In Study 1, participants in the high-addiction condition consumed fewer calories than those in the low-addiction condition, F(1,60)=7.61, p=.008, ηp² =0.11. Study 2 replicated and extended this finding showing that the effect of the high-addiction condition on food intake was mediated by increased dietary concern, which reduced the amount of time participants willingly spent exposed to the foods during the taste test, b=-.06(.03),95% confidence interval(CI) = -.13,-.01. Conclusions: Believing oneself to be a food addict is associated with short-term dietary restriction. The longer-term effects on weight management now warrant attention.
| Keywords: | Food addiction, Beliefs, Eating behavior |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health |
| Depositing User: | Helen Ruddock |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2016 11:47 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2016 11:47 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/99 |
| URI: | https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/99 |
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