Relation between cognitive restraint and weight: Does a content validity problem lead to a wrong axis of care?
Résumé
The aim of this research is to examine the relation between weight and cognitiverestraint (CR), which is the intention to control food intake in order to maintain orlose weight, in a general French population sample. Is CR more prevalent in individualswith obesity than overweight, underweight or normal-weight subjects in thiscross-sectional study? Are people affected by obesity non-restrained eaters? A totalof 507 French people (80.2% women and 19.8% men), aged 18-78 years, respondedto an online questionnaire. It appears that the most used questionnaire measuring CRhas content validity problems as it seems to measure effective control and not theintention. Therefore, a numeric scale was used to answer the questions. Even if it isnot possible in this study to test a causal link with latent variable modelling, ourresults seem to show that people with obesity more frequently intend to eat less orto eat healthier and/or to eat less sugar and fat than other people in order to controltheir weight. However, people affected by obesity do not succeed in so doing. Theseresults raise the question of treatments advocating the increase of self-control.Finally, it would be necessary to obtain a real, scientific consensus on what CR is andon how to measure it in order to study the most effective treatments for people withoverweight or obesity.
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