Watkins, E;
Serpell, L;
(2016)
The Psychological Effects of Short-Term Fasting in Healthy Women.
Frontiers in Nutrition
, 3
, Article 27. 10.3389/fnut.2016.00027.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to investigate affective responses to 18-h fasting in healthy controls. In particular, the study focused on self-reported mood, irritability, sense of achievement, reward, pride, and control. METHOD: Participants were a non-clinical sample of 52 women with a mean age of 25. A repeated-measures design was used, whereby participants provided diary measures of psychological variables throughout both 18-h fasting and non-fasting periods. RESULTS: Fasting led to increased irritability, and also to positive affective experiences of increased sense of achievement, reward, pride, and control. DISCUSSION: Even short-term fasting in healthy controls can lead to positive psychological experiences. This lends support to cognitive-behavioral and cognitive-interpersonal models of ANR, which suggest that dietary restriction is maintained through positive reinforcement.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Psychological Effects of Short-Term Fasting in Healthy Women. |
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnut.2016.00027 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2016.00027 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © 2016 Watkins and Serpell. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | emotions, fasting, healthy individuals, psychology, starvation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1516781 |
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