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Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult
Most people try to eat healthy, but the temptation of unhealthy foods (among other factors) can make it difficult. Despite these difficulties, some people still achieve their healthy eating goals. Following self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000), we propose that relative autonomous m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35910091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09960-3 |
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description | Most people try to eat healthy, but the temptation of unhealthy foods (among other factors) can make it difficult. Despite these difficulties, some people still achieve their healthy eating goals. Following self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000), we propose that relative autonomous motivation (RAM) can foster people’s effort in pursuing health goals. In two daily diary studies, we tested the hypothesis that RAM predicts attainment of healthy eating goals, especially when it is difficult. In Study 1, we focused on difficulties associated with trying to eat certain foods while avoiding others, whereas in Study 2, we focused on difficulties associated with the availability of unhealthy and healthy foods. Multilevel analyses provided some support our hypothesis, and highlighted the role of RAM for eating (vs. skipping) lunch and packing a lunch–two approach-based healthy eating strategies. We discuss these findings in relation to SDT and propose directions for future research on within-person changes in motivation and other sources of difficulty. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11031-022-09960-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-93095942022-07-25 Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult Maillet, Myles A. Grouzet, Frederick M. E. Motiv Emot Original Paper Most people try to eat healthy, but the temptation of unhealthy foods (among other factors) can make it difficult. Despite these difficulties, some people still achieve their healthy eating goals. Following self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000), we propose that relative autonomous motivation (RAM) can foster people’s effort in pursuing health goals. In two daily diary studies, we tested the hypothesis that RAM predicts attainment of healthy eating goals, especially when it is difficult. In Study 1, we focused on difficulties associated with trying to eat certain foods while avoiding others, whereas in Study 2, we focused on difficulties associated with the availability of unhealthy and healthy foods. Multilevel analyses provided some support our hypothesis, and highlighted the role of RAM for eating (vs. skipping) lunch and packing a lunch–two approach-based healthy eating strategies. We discuss these findings in relation to SDT and propose directions for future research on within-person changes in motivation and other sources of difficulty. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11031-022-09960-3. Springer US 2022-07-25 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9309594/ /pubmed/35910091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09960-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Maillet, Myles A. Grouzet, Frederick M. E. Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title | Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title_full | Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title_fullStr | Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title_short | Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
title_sort | healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35910091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09960-3 |
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