Goal pursuit increases more after dietary success than after dietary failure: examining conflicting theories of self-regulation using ecological momentary assessment

• Main Authors: Hannah van Alebeek (Author), Christopher M. Jones (Author), Julia Reichenberger (Author), Björn Pannicke (Author), Benjamin Schüz (Author), Jens Blechert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Maintaining a healthy body weight and reaching long-term dietary goals requires ongoing self-monitoring and behavioral adjustments. How individuals respond to successes and failures is described in models of self-regulation: while cybernetic models propose that failures lead to i...