Josje Maas

Selfregulation people

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Research

The easy and abundant availability and accessibility of energy-dense food has been identified as contributing to the high prevalence of overweight. Overweight may put a strain on employers by increasing absence from work and by increasing health care costs. Many people spend most of their waking hours in a school or work environment rendering these important target environments for intervention. So far, experience with the prevention of overweight in the work context in the Netherlands has focused primarily on environmental methods of intervening. In the provision project the effectiveness of an environmental approach and a behavioural approach will be compared.
A self-regulation intervention, developed by the self-regulation lab team, will be adjusted to an occupational population. The original format of the program was developed in a NWO study aimed at promoting self-management of health behaviours in patients with diabetes and asthma. This self-regulation intervention has been successfully implemented in several studies (links?). In the provision project, the effectiveness of the intervention in prevention of overweight in an occupational population will be evaluated.

Teaching

Supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.

Publications

Maas, J., De Ridder, D., & Voorneman, I. (September, 2009). Do distant foods decrease intake? The effect of food accessibility on eating behaviour. Poster presented at European Health Psychology Society Conference, Pisa, Italy.