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- Title
The dieting experience: A Jewish perspective.
- Authors
Mount, Amanda; Bogle, Vanessa
- Abstract
Considered to be a chronic recidivist condition, obesity places significant burdens on the society. The search for appropriate interventions remains challenging. Research suggests individuals’ environments should be considered when addressing eating behaviours. Nomothetic accounts of the dieting experiences of eight self-selected British Jews within a commercially run, community-based weight-management programme adapted to Jewish participants’ cultural needs were explored using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four themes were identified: ‘Me, myself and I’, ‘behaviour change’, ‘structural framework’ and ‘social interaction’. Emergent aspects were social support and structural flexibility to motivate participants to initiate and sustain behaviour change. Implications for future weight-loss interventions are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; DIET &; psychology; BEHAVIOR modification; REGULATION of body weight; FOOD habits; PSYCHOLOGY of Jews; OBESITY; COMMUNITY-based social services
- Publication
Journal of Health Psychology, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 4, p457
- ISSN
1359-1053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1359105314528012