PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SELF-REGULATION OF WEIGHT CONTROL AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Keywords:
personality traits, weight control, self-regulationAbstract
The purposes of present study were to investigate reliability of the personality inventory from International Personality Item Pools (IPIP) (50 items) which was translated into Thai language, to develop the self-regulation of weight control scale, and to analyze the relationships of both variables among undergraduate students. The participants in this study were 342 undergraduate students who were under weight control. A voluntary response sample was used in this study. The IPIP personality inventory and the self-regulation of weight control scale were main measurements. Internal consistency was analyzed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Moreover, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were used to analyze construct validity and relationships between personality traits and weight control specific self-regulation. The results showed that the IPIP personality inventory and the self-regulation of weight control scale had good internal consistency (α = 0.763 – 0.933). Furthermore, this study also found that the relationships between personality traits and self-regulation of weight control were statistically significant (p < .001). An understanding of the personality traits and self-regulation would be helpful to those healthcare professionals to evaluate, conceptualize and analyze the directions to improve self-regulation behaviors of individuals. However, there is a need to further expand the study of self-regulation processes and the relationship between personality traits and self-regulation in the various samples and more diverse behaviors.
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Cheung PC, Ip PL, Lam ST. et al. A study on body weight perception and weight control behaviors among adolescents in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2007; 13: 16-21.
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Costa PT, McCrae RR. Four ways five factors are basic. Personality and Individual Differences, 1992; 13: 653-665.
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Luchettia M, Sutina AR, Delitalab A. et al. Personality traits and facets linked with self-reported alcohol consumption and biomarkers of liver health. Addictive Behaviors, 2018; 82: 135-141.
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Silapakit Ch, Silapakit O, Chomchuen R. The validity study of the mindset assessment scale. Journal of Mental Health of Thailand, 2015; 23(3): 166-174.
Sutin AR, Ferrucci L, Zonderman AB. Et al. A. Personality and obesity across the adult life span. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011; 101(3): 579 –592.
Thongworn S. Self-regulation failure and its relations with compensatory beliefs. MFU Connexion: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019; 8(1): 229-247.
Thoumrungroje A. Methodological caveats in the utilization of single informant with self-administered survey in East Asian countries. Journal of Business Administration, 2017; 6(2): 11-23.
World Health Organization. The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Redefining Obesity and its Treatment. Health Communications Australia Pty Ltd; 2000.
Zilbermana N, Yadidb G, Efratid Y. et al. Personality profiles of substance and behavioral addictions. Addictive Behaviors, 2018; 82: 174-181.
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Thongworn, S. (2019). PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SELF-REGULATION OF WEIGHT CONTROL AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. Life Sciences and Environment Journal, 20(2), 338–353. Retrieved from https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/psru/article/view/187060
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