Table 5.
Prediction of task performance as a function of food deprivation, state food craving, BMI, dieting success, impulsivity, and group (study 2).
| Reaction times | Commission errors | Omission errors | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food | Neutral | Food-neutral | Food | Neutral | Food-neutral | Food | Neutral | Food-neutral | ||||||||||
| β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | β | p | |
| Food deprivation | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group | 0.07 | ns | 0.05 | ns | 0.03 | ns | −0.11 | ns | −0.04 | ns | −0.07 | ns | 0.01 | ns | −0.03 | ns | 0.05 | ns |
| Food deprivation | −0.05 | ns | −0.09 | ns | 0.04 | ns | 0.04 | ns | 0.02 | ns | 0.02 | ns | 0.02 | ns | −0.04 | ns | 0.08 | ns |
| Group × food deprivation | −0.18 | ns | −0.10 | ns | −0.15 | ns | −0.10 | ns | 0.10 | ns | −0.19 | ns | −0.04 | ns | −0.07 | ns | 0.05 | ns |
| FCQ−S difference* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group | 0.06 | ns | 0.05 | ns | 0.03 | ns | −0.11 | ns | −0.03 | ns | −0.07 | ns | 0.01 | ns | −0.03 | ns | 0.05 | ns |
| FCQ−S difference | −0.05 | ns | 0.02 | ns | −0.11 | ns | 0.02 | ns | 0.10 | ns | −0.08 | ns | 0.00 | ns | 0.14 | ns | −0.19 | ns |
| Group × FCQ−S difference | 0.05 | ns | 0.04 | ns | 0.03 | ns | 0.10 | ns | −0.02 | ns | 0.12 | ns | −0.02 | ns | 0.07 | ns | −0.11 | ns |
| BMI | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group | 0.06 | ns | 0.04 | ns | 0.04 | ns | −0.11 | ns | −0.04 | ns | −0.07 | ns | 0.01 | ns | −0.05 | ns | 0.07 | ns |
| BMI | 0.10 | ns | 0.13 | ns | −0.03 | ns | 0.06 | ns | −0.01 | ns | 0.07 | ns | 0.09 | ns | 0.19 | ns | −0.17 | ns |
| Group × BMI | −0.13 | ns | −0.05 | ns | −0.13 | ns | −0.10 | ns | −0.05 | ns | −0.04 | ns | −0.25 | <0.05 | −0.10 | ns | −0.13 | ns |
| PSRS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group | 0.05 | ns | 0.01 | ns | 0.07 | ns | −0.12 | ns | −0.07 | ns | −0.05 | ns | −0.02 | ns | −0.08 | ns | 0.09 | ns |
| PSRS | −0.07 | ns | −0.22 | <0.05 | 0.20 | <0.05 | −0.07 | ns | −0.19 | ns | 0.11 | ns | −0.14 | ns | −0.25 | <0.05 | 0.19 | ns |
| Group × PSRS | 0.21 | <0.05 | 0.13 | ns | 0.16 | ns | 0.20 | <0.05 | 0.01 | ns | 0.18 | ns | 0.36 | <0.001 | 0.06 | ns | 0.30 | <0.01 |
| BIS−15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Group | 0.06 | ns | 0.05 | ns | 0.04 | ns | −0.12 | ns | −0.05 | ns | −0.06 | ns | 0.01 | ns | −0.04 | ns | 0.06 | ns |
| BIS−15 | 0.02 | ns | 0.04 | ns | −0.03 | ns | 0.12 | ns | 0.27 | <0.01 | −0.15 | ns | 0.11 | ns | 0.08 | ns | 0.00 | ns |
| Group × BIS−15 | −0.01 | ns | 0.14 | ns | −0.21 | <0.05 | 0.02 | ns | 0.24 | <0.05 | −0.22 | <0.05 | 0.07 | ns | 0.06 | ns | −0.01 | ns |
FCQ-S, Food Cravings Questionnaire—State; BMI, Body mass index; PSRS, Perceived Self-Regulatory Success in Dieting Scale; BIS-15, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale—Short form.
Absolute values (i.e., food craving before and after the task) also were uncorrelated to task performance.