Women's regulation styles for eating behaviors and outcomes:The mediating role of approach and avoidance food planning

摘要

The purpose of this article was to examine the roleplayed by different orientations in planning for eatingbehaviors as mediators of the relationship between regulationstyles and eating behaviors. In Study 1, a new scale wasdeveloped to assess approach food planning and avoidancefood planning. Results from confirmatory analyses (N = 241)supported the two-factor structure of the scale. In Study 2(N = 202), in agreement with past research on the effects ofautonomous and controlled motivation for the regulation ofeating behaviors, we found that approach food planning par-tially mediated the effects of autonomous regulation for eatingbehaviors on healthy eating behaviors, while avoidance foodplanning partially mediated the effects of controlled regula-tion for eating behaviors on dysfunctional eating behaviors.Implications of these results for self-determination theory andfor promoting healthy eating behaviors are discussed.