RT Journal Article
T1 Emotional and instrumental aggressiveness and body weight loss
A1 Paradis, Sebastien
A1 Ramirez, J. Martin
A1 Cabanac, Michel
AB Violence and aggressiveness are social concerns. Also, at a time of rising prevalence of obesity, many people tend to control their body weight through dieting. We analyzed the impact of weight loss on aggressiveness: 150 participants completed anonymously two questionnaires assessing their aggressiveness, age, sex, diet, recent body weight change, reasons of recent body weight changes, and perceived difficulties related to those changes. Results showed that participants who had deliberately lost weight reported higher aggressiveness than controls, but passive weight-losers did not. The raised aggressiveness was stronger for hostile aggression than for instrumental aggression. Such a rise is likely to be due to the discomfort associated with opposing body weight set-point.
SN 1841-0413
YR 2007
FD 2007
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52979
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52979
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025