The Motivation for Losing Weight in Adolescents—Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors
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Mental Health, Motivation, Social Pressure, Adolescents, Obesity.Abstract
Background: Health-related study about overweight and obesity in the world has been a rapidly growing research field in the past decades. Practically, there indeed exists an increasing number of adolescents who tend to lose weight currently. Nevertheless, little has been known about their specific motivation for weight loss. Method: Based on the four major motivations of teenagers’ weight loss concluded by David Franciole Oliveira Silva, Karine Cavalcanti Maurício Sena-Evangelista, et al. in 2018, the author conducted a related literature review intended to further identify their main causes and mechanisms. Results: According to the review, besides health motivation, others are triggered by different kinds of social pressure radically. In addition, the effects and maintenance of losing weight can be shown to be stronger in adolescents who hold the desire for health as their motivation. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate a strong relationship between social pressure and the frequency of weight loss. Thus, further study can focus on the measures of the intervention in this kind of situation, including the fields of psychology, biology, sociology, and so forth so that teenagers’ health and growth both physically and mentally can be guaranteed.
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