| dc.description.abstract | Previous studies have indicated that restrained and unrestrained eaters
exhibit dififerent eating patterns in response to preloading or no preloading. After
a preload, restrained eaters tend to exhibit counterregulatory behaviour, where
they consume more and unrestrained eaters tend to exhibit normal regulatory
behaviour, where they consume less. The present study was designed to examine
vsdiether these patterns are due to different attributional styles exhibited by
restrained and unrestrained eaters. In Phase 1, undergraduates enrolled in
Introductory Psychology were administered the Restraint Scale, the Beck
Depression Inventory, and the Eating Attributional Style Questionnaire. It was
hypothesized that restrained eaters would attribute Mure to maintain dietary
restraint in hypothetical situations to internal, stable, and global causes which are
associated with the abstinence violation effect (AVE). Contrary to expectations.
Mure to maintain restraint was attributed to external and global causes. For
Phase 2, 100 female subjects were selected fi*om the above pool of subjects based
on their scores on the questionnaires. Using a matching procedure, subjects were
randomly assigned to one oftwo conditions: preload or no preload. In both
conditions, subjects' cookie consunq)tion was measured in a taste test. The results,
using a median split analysis, indicated that an external orientation to food
consunq)tion was a better predictor ofthe preloading effect than the dimension of
restraint. | |
