Behavioral and Psychological Phenotyping of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Implications for Weight Management.
Angela D BryanJohn Michael JakicicChristine M HunterMary E EvansSusan Z YanovskiLeonard H EpsteinPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2018)
This summary provides the rationale for identifying psychological and behavioral phenotypes relevant to physical activity and identifies opportunities for future research to better understand, define, measure, and validate putative phenotypic factors and characterize emerging phenotypes that are empirically associated with initiation of physical activity, response to intervention, and sustained changes in physical activity.