A saructural madel of food attitucle and health disorder

2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 12610153
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 教育・社会系心理学
• Research Institution: Hiroshima Shudo University
• Principal Investigator: IMADA Sumio Hiroshima Shudo University, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (90193672)
• Project Period (FY): 2000 – 2001
• Keywords: food / eating / attitude / health / model / neophobia

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the links of eating behavior and the subjective symptoms of health disorder. A sample of 303 Japanese students (214 women and 89 men) completed the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ), the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS) and the Health Questionnaire (Imada, 1995). On the base of the analysis of covariance structures within the framework of confirmatory factor analysis, models that are differentiated with gender are proposed. Although FNS has predictive power to the subjective symptoms of health disorder in women, no such causal relationship is gained in men. The results are discussed in the line of the gender differences of the links of eating behavior and the health disorder.