Situational management, standard setting, and self-reward in a behavior modification weight loss program.
Situational management, standard setting, and self-reward in a behavior modification weight loss program.
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行为改变减肥计划中的情境管理、标准设定和自我奖励。
DOI:
10.1037//0022-006x.46.6.1588
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
D. Jeffrey
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文献类型:
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作者:
S. Chapman;D. Jeffrey
In a comprehensive weight loss program, overweight women exposed to instruction in self-standard setting as well as to situational management techniques lost more weight than those instructed only in situational management techniques. Addition of instruction in self-reinforc ement to standard setting and situational management failed to produce additional weight loss. Findings illustrate the facilitative effect of teaching individuals to set specific, objective, and realistic goals for eating behaviors and weight and the difficulties of incorporating self-reward procedures in a comprehensive program. Short-term behavioral programs have yielded promising results, but there has been insufficient research on the variables involved (Abramson, 1977). Although several investigators have found greater weight losses in individuals taught to reward themselves for changing eating habits or weight than in controls instructed to selfmonitor eating and weight (e.g., Bellack, 1976; Mahoney, 1974), the role of standard setting as a component of self-reinforc ement has not been adequately studied. In the present study, 57 women, who ranged from 17.0% to 84.8% above ideal body weight (M = 45.4) on insurance tables were recruited from the community through newspaper ads. They ranged in age from 17 to 65 years (M = 37.8), and most came from a middle or uppermiddle socioeconomic level, They deposited $40, which was returned contingent on attendance at group meetings, and were divided into triplets of approximately equal body weights and percentages of overweight. Members of each triplet were assigned randomly to the three treatment groups, each of which met for 90 minutes for 8 consecutive weeks and for a follow-up meeting 8 weeks after treatment. Group meetings consisted of a private weigh-in and presentation and discussion of specific behavioral techniques to be used during the following week. Three therapists, all of whom were familiar with behavior modification but who were in