Abstract
Despite of public health efforts in many countries, more and more people have serious problems to successfully regulate eating behaviors, therefore contributing to the increasing rates of obesity and other diseases related to diet. Making unhealthy food choices and having bad eating habits represent the main factors which negatively influence the management of weight and health of people. Being successful in regulating their own eating behavior, individuals may get better control over their food experiences and boost the psychological well-being. This paper addresses the issue of the eating self-regulation and aspects of behavior change. Although these approaches have studied in parallel the self-regulatory processes, our article attempts to illustrate how they may gain from forging such a connection integrating new research and methodological lines in the current understanding of eating self-regulation. From a social cognitive view, we underlined that people appear to use the intake of others as a regulatory guide and receive from it social support characterized as being emotional, informational, and effective aid in order to adopt a healthy diet. Social and cognitive research can better explore how to help individuals change their eating behaviors more efficiently. We suggest some future directions for nutritional interventions and public health campaigns. Keywords: eating self-regulation; social cognitive; successful regulation
Highlights
During the last years research on self-regulation in general and eating self-regulation in particular had made significant progress, more and more people find it very difficult to successfully adjust or modify their unhealthy eating habits in the long-term
This paper addresses the issue of eating self-regulation highlighting a description of the successfully mediators of behavioral change, dietary intake and revealing social influences on eating
Social cognitive theory suggests that people learn behaviors through their interactions and observations of others, as well as their direct experience
Summary
During the last years research on self-regulation in general and eating self-regulation in particular had made significant progress, more and more people find it very difficult to successfully adjust or modify their unhealthy eating habits in the long-term. There is a scientific consensus on the importance of self-regulation to human adaptation. There are, instead different views about how it can be analyzed, conceptualized and used in practice in everyday life. This paper addresses the issue of eating self-regulation highlighting a description of the successfully mediators of behavioral change, dietary intake and revealing social influences on eating. We aim to provide general definitions of self-regulation and eating self-regulation. The specific features and advantages of the social cognitive theory are presented as well as the limits that this theoretical perspective implies
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