The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition (한국식품영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Food and Nutrition (한국식품영양학회)
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The Effect on the Dietary Habits and Food Purchase Type according to the Stress in Chinese Students

경기지역 중국인 유학생의 스트레스가 식습관 및 식품구매 형태에 미치는 영향

  • Received : 2019.05.19
  • Accepted : 2019.06.18
  • Published : 2019.06.30
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Abstract

This study was performed to provide fundamental data on the dietary habits and food purchase types according to the stress patterns. The subject was 312 Chinese students in Gyeonggi region through a self-administered questionnaire. According to the results of the reliability analysis, the stress items showed an average of 2.91 and 0.846 for Cronbach alpha coefficient. The results of ANOVA analysis on the difference of dietary habits according to stress are as follows; There were significant differences for the meal frequency per day according to schoolwork, economic, general living, and dietary habits (p<0.05). Also, the general living pattern showed significant differences for the meal outside frequency and Chinese food intake (p<0.05). The results of ANOVA analysis on the difference of food purchase type according to stress are as follows; There was significant differences in degree of use of convenience foods according to interpersonal relationship, cooking method of convenience foods according to economics, the selection criteria of convenience foods according to schoolwork (p<0.05). The correlation coefficient of dietary habits and convenience food intake are 0.223, -0.147 in stress degree and dietary habits. In conclusion, I would like to provide the basic data necessary for the right choice of Chinese students' dietary habits and food purchases.

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Table 1. Personal characteristics of survey group

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Table 2. Reliability analysis results in the stress items

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Table 3. Comparison of dietary habits according to the stress

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Table 3. Continued

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Table 4. Difference of convenience foods purchase according to the stress

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Table 5. Relationship among dietary habit, stress, convenient food intake frequency

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