Conceptual Organisation and Weight Change

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A form of repertory grid was used to study changes in attitudes to the self and others in the personal environment of two obese women during weight change. During weight loss, view of the self polarized from being evaluatively ‘bad’ to being close to the ideal. With weight gain the view of self reverted to being ‘bad’. After the initial weight loss, change in self construing occurred before change from weight loss to weight gain. The hypothesized prognostic value of degree of complexity of the construing system could not be tested as neither patient retained her weight loss. Further research will show whether the polarization of the self can be used as an indicator of forth-coming relapse and conceptual complexity as a prognostic indicator.

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