The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between weight cycling and dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) while controlling for their simultaneous effects in women selected from a general population. Moreover, the interrelationships between the measures of dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, and emotional eating were examined. The Disinhibition Subscale (DS) and the Cognitive Restraint Subscale (CRS) of the Three Factor Questionnaire (TFQ), the Emotional Eating Subscale (EE) of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, and the Bulimic Inventory Test (BITE) were administered to 350 women in accordance with the Dillman protocol, and BMI was calculated. Significant positive correlations between weight cycling and the CRS (r = 0.23), DS (r= 0.38), BITE (r =0.39), EE (r = 0.36), and BMI (r= 0.28) were found. Together these variables accounted for 26% of the total variance in number of weight cycles. The EE and BMI had the strongest effect on weight cycling. The next strongest effects were the BITE and CRS; although, they were not statistically significant. The results suggest that obese women who diet repeatedly may be successful at losing weight but are not successful at long-term weight loss maintenance due to factors such as emotional and binge eating. / Master of Science