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Persuasive Mechanisms Behind the Influence of Food Marketing During Childhood: The Role of Positive Affect and Food Cue Reactivity. KU Leuven
This dissertation aims to examine the underpinning mechanisms that explain how food marketing exposure influences children's brand responses and eating behavior and to investigate whether these mechanisms differ by factors such as the advertising format and children's age. Furthermore, it evaluates the effectiveness of inhibitory control training to reduce the impact of food marketing exposure on children's snacking behavior while exploring the ...
Party pooper or life of the party: Dampening and enhancing of positive affect in a peer context KU Leuven
Dampening and enhancing responses to positive affect have been linked to depressive symptoms. The main aim of the present study was to examine such responses in an interpersonal peer context and to examine their relation with depressive symptoms. A community sample of 665 seventh-graders (52.0% girls, Mage = 12.7 years) took part in the study. Using a newly developed questionnaire, the Co-Dampening and Co-Enhancing Questionnaire (CoDEQ), a ...
Genetic and environmental causes of individual differences in daily life positive affect and reward experience and its overlap with stress-sensitivity KU Leuven
Momentary positive affect (PA) and reward experience may underlie subjective wellbeing, and index mental health resilience. This study examines their underlying sources of variation and the covariation with stress-sensitivity. The experience sampling method was used to collect multiple appraisals of mood and daily life events in 520 female twins. Structural equation model fitting was employed to determine sources of variation of PA, reward ...