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| Title |
Interrelationships among impulsive personality traits, food addiction, and Body Mass Index
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| Published in |
Appetite, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.appet.2013.10.008 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Cara M. Murphy, Monika K. Stojek, James MacKillop |
| Abstract |
Objective Impulsive personality traits have been robustly associated with alcohol and drug misuse, but have received little attention in the context of food addiction. The goal of the current study was to examine the interrelationships between impulsive personality traits, food addiction, and Body Mass Index (BMI), including indirect pathways of influence. Method: Participants (N=233) completed the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) to assess patterns of addictive consumption of food, the UPPS-P Impulsivity Scale to assess impulsive personality traits, and provided weight and height to generate BMI. Results: Significant positive associations were found between facets of impulsivity, food addiction symptoms, and BMI. Impulsivity was found to be indirectly associated with BMI by way of associations with addictive consumption of food. In particular, an inclination toward behaving irrationally while experiencing negative mood states (Negative Urgency) and low levels of task persistence (lack of Perseverance) were significantly associated with food addiction directly and that relationship was responsible for their relationship to BMI. Conclusions: Dispositional impulsivity, routinely associated with high-risk behaviors including addictive consumption of alcohol and drugs, may be an important risk factor when considering tendency to engage in addictive consumption of food. Monitoring food addiction symptoms early may help reduce the likelihood that compulsive food consumption patterns result in weight gain and obesity. Methodological considerations are discussed. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Sweden | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 6 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 70% |
| Scientists | 3 | 30% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 337 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 328 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 62 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 52 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 45 | 13% |
| Researcher | 40 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 26 | 8% |
| Other | 50 | 15% |
| Unknown | 62 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 137 | 41% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 20 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 34 | 10% |
| Unknown | 71 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 141. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 February 2015.
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#243,816
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Outputs from Appetite
#132
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#2,538
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#4
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Altmetric has tracked 22,727,570 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,416 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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