Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss

Violence and aggressiveness are social concerns. Also, at a time of rising prevalence of obesity, many people tend to control their body weight through dieting. We analyzed the impact of weight loss on aggressiveness: 150 participants completed anonymously two questionnaires assessing their aggressi...

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Autores: Paradis, Sebastien, Ramirez, J. Martin, Cabanac, Michel
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Aggression
Dieting
Weight loss
Body weight regulation
Setpoint
Emoción y agresividad
Fisiología
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2411 Fisiología Humana
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spelling Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight lossParadis, SebastienRamirez, J. MartinCabanac, MichelAggressionDietingWeight lossBody weight regulationSetpointEmoción y agresividadFisiología6106.03 Emoción2411 Fisiología HumanaViolence and aggressiveness are social concerns. Also, at a time of rising prevalence of obesity, many people tend to control their body weight through dieting. We analyzed the impact of weight loss on aggressiveness: 150 participants completed anonymously two questionnaires assessing their aggressiveness, age, sex, diet, recent body weight change, reasons of recent body weight changes, and perceived difficulties related to those changes. Results showed that participants who had deliberately lost weight reported higher aggressiveness than controls, but passive weight-losers did not. The raised aggressiveness was stronger for hostile aggression than for instrumental aggression. Such a rise is likely to be due to the discomfort associated with opposing body weight set-point.Universidad Complutense de Madrid20072007-01-0120072007-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52979reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/529792026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
title Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
spellingShingle Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
Paradis, Sebastien
Aggression
Dieting
Weight loss
Body weight regulation
Setpoint
Emoción y agresividad
Fisiología
6106.03 Emoción
2411 Fisiología Humana
title_short Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
title_full Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
title_fullStr Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
title_full_unstemmed Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
title_sort Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Paradis, Sebastien
Ramirez, J. Martin
Cabanac, Michel
author Paradis, Sebastien
author_facet Paradis, Sebastien
Ramirez, J. Martin
Cabanac, Michel
author_role author
author2 Ramirez, J. Martin
Cabanac, Michel
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aggression
Dieting
Weight loss
Body weight regulation
Setpoint
Emoción y agresividad
Fisiología
6106.03 Emoción
2411 Fisiología Humana
topic Aggression
Dieting
Weight loss
Body weight regulation
Setpoint
Emoción y agresividad
Fisiología
6106.03 Emoción
2411 Fisiología Humana
description Violence and aggressiveness are social concerns. Also, at a time of rising prevalence of obesity, many people tend to control their body weight through dieting. We analyzed the impact of weight loss on aggressiveness: 150 participants completed anonymously two questionnaires assessing their aggressiveness, age, sex, diet, recent body weight change, reasons of recent body weight changes, and perceived difficulties related to those changes. Results showed that participants who had deliberately lost weight reported higher aggressiveness than controls, but passive weight-losers did not. The raised aggressiveness was stronger for hostile aggression than for instrumental aggression. Such a rise is likely to be due to the discomfort associated with opposing body weight set-point.
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