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Autonomy support in a couples weight loss trial: Helping yourself while helping others.

Theodore A PowersRichard KoestnerAmanda DenesTalea CorneliusAmy A Gorin
Published in: Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare (2021)
The results confirm the importance of couples-based interventions and autonomy support for behavior change. In addition, it appears that providing autonomy support is useful for both the recipient and the provider. These results point to the need for developing targeted interventions to facilitate the provision of autonomy support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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