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Download full textBlack, David R.; And Others – 1982
Individual variability in response to behavioral weight loss programs remains an unresolved and perplexing issue for health psychologists. Determining in advance who will succeed or fail at losing weight would be useful in devising programs that produce a more homogeneous and dramatic response to treatment. In order to examine which responses to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Health Programs
Black, David R.; And Others – 1982
Health psychologists continue to have difficulty identifying prognostic indicators of weight loss success. Psychological, social, and demographic factors have been examined, but correlations with weight loss are disappointing. Actual behaviors or quantifications of specific actions and historical measures were examined for their validity in…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Health Programs, Intervention
Eshelman, Anne K. – 1984
Understanding the dynamics of premature termination from treatment would be useful for practitioners working with clients requiring prolonged treatment. Compliance in weight management was examined in three studies in order to explore the broader issue of compliance. In study 1, a standard 10-week cognitive behavioral weight management program was…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Cognitive Restructuring, Contingency Management
Drotar, Dennis – 1984
Children diagnosed with environmentally based failure to thrive early during their first year of life were seen at 12 and 18 months for assessment of psychological development (cognition, language, symbolic play, and behavior during testing). Based on a transactional model of outcome, factors reflecting biological vulnerability (wasting and…
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Family Income, Family Size
Lichtenstein, Brenda; Sherman, A. Robert – 1983
The present research program began as a preliminary attempt to examine the relationship between client and treatment loci of control as a predictor of success in weight control programs. In the first phase of the research, individuals previously attempting weight loss, and the programs they had pursued, were classified as being either primarily…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Weight, Clinics, College Students
Pollitt, Ernesto; Gilmore, Michael – 1977
This study tests the proposition that selective behaviors of both mother and infant during feeding are predictors of weight gain during the first month of life. Forty normal mother-neonate pairs were studied, and the target behaviors were examined using an adaptation of the techniques developed by Brown and Bakeman (in which approximately 60…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
