I am trying to decide which personality measure of impulsivity to use in a study on unhealthy snacking/eating among a non-clinical sample. While I can find a range of review papers, I am yet to find a meta-analysis that focuses specifically on personality based measures of impulsivity (e.g. UPPS-R, BIS-11, I-7) in respect to unhealthy snacking/eating, thus allowing me to pick the best measure. Does any-one know of such a paper? Or have any advice? I am also trying to decide on a behavioural measure (e.g. delay discounting task, Go/No-Go task) and am encountering the same issue so any help/advice in regards to these tasks too would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
Although it concerns eating disorder behaviour (binge eating may be relevant) here is a possible source to consider: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735808001281
Thanks for your answers. The article by Fischer, Smith and Cyders seems particularly useful and while it does focus more on BN, it would suggest that using the UPPS may be optimal as it best encapsulates the different constructs that are included in impulsivity.
The Intellectual Style Inventory, is a tool for learning style assessment. It is mine, and I encourage you to incorporate in your study. The tool differentiate between people with respect to perception and decision making. It provides four types regarding each of the two mental functions after the concept of cortical functional specialization. I can provide help and the paper is an open access article. Best of luck.
The paper is very interesting and I think the IS I could help in discovering significant differences between abusers and non abusers in their preferential intellectual styles. The tool is ready in the form of a software program and available for research in Arabic and English.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Psychology