See the cake and have it too? Investigating the effect of watching a TV cooking show on unhealthy food choices

PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

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Article

Alblas, Monique C.¹  Mollen, Saar¹  Fransen, Marieke L.^1,3  van den Putte, Bas^1,2 

[1] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, NL-1018 WV Amsterdam, Netherlands

[2] Netherlands Inst Mental Hlth & Addict, Trimbos Inst, Da Costakade 45, NL-3521 VS Utrecht, Netherlands

[3] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Commun & Media Behav Sci Inst BSI, Thomas van Aquinostr 4, NL-6525 GD Nijmegen, Netherlands

关键词: Food cues;    Television;    Media effects;    Eating restraint;    Self-regulation;    Eating behavior;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113409

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

This study tested whether exposure to food-related (vs. non-food related) TV content would increase unhealthy food choices in unsuccessful restrained eaters (i.e., chronic dieters with low perceived self-regulatory success; PSRS), decrease unhealthy food choices in successful restrained eaters (i.e., chronic dieters with high PSRS), and would not affect food choices in unrestrained eaters (i.e., non-dieters). As such, we attempted to (1) explain previous mixed findings on behavioral effects of exposure to food-related TV content, and (2) generalize previous findings on successful and unsuccessful restrained and unrestrained eaters' differential reactivity to isolated food cues (e.g., food words) to food cues embedded in TV content. In a one-factorial between-subjects experiment, participants viewed a cooking segment in which high-calorie cakes were prepared (n = 50) or a non-food segment (n = 62) of a TV show. The percentage of unhealthy (vs. healthy) food choices in a computerized choice task served as dependent variable. Eating restraint and PSRS were measured afterwards. In contrast to the hypothesis, no three-way interaction between TV content, eating restraint, and PSRS on the percentage of unhealthy food choices was found. However, it was found that overall, people with lower levels of PSRS made a higher percentage of unhealthy food choices compared to people with higher levels of PSRS. Contrasting findings from previous research using isolated food cues, this study showed no evidence of unsuccessful restrained eaters' heightened susceptibility to food cues in TV content, possibly explained by a lower salience of or attention to food cues.

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