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http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2016.030

An Analysis of Dietary Life Characteristics and Influence Factors of Korean Women  

An, Yun Sook (Special Research Institute, Jeonju University)
Chung, Hae Kyung (Department of Food and Nutrition, Hoseo University)
Kim, Heung Ju (Department of Social Welfare, Wonkwang University)
Lee, Yoon Kyung (Regional Development Institute, Wonkwang University)
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Human Ecology Research / v.54, no.4, 2016 , pp. 397-404 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyze factors influencing the dietary life of Korean women. This study analyzed 653 women aged 19 (and over) in Korea using materials developed by Social Sciences Korea Food Sustainability Study Group in 2015. As a result, in dietary life characteristics, females with higher education in their 40s and 50s and with a high income level, married women, and women thinking are subjectively healthy and show a statistically significant difference compared to other groups. Next, a correlation analysis is conducted to examine the relationship between independent variables and dietary life. The results showed a positive relationship with all variables, and a high correlation in the sales recognition of homegrown products (r=.384), the recognition of a food environment (r=.349), the recognition of food welfare (r=.325), and the recognition of food safety (r=.322). Factors that influence dietary life are extracted and the causal relationship is verified through multiple regression analysis of which the dependent variable is dietary life. In a regression model of dietary life, the researcher finds the trend that explanation power increases by models that the variable group is added in an individual model ($R^2$ is changed from .090 to .215 and from .250 to .273). Subsequently, age, level of education, recognition about value of organic agricultural product, recognition about the sales of homegrown products, recognition of food environment, recognition of food safety, and recognition of food insecurity are factors that influence the dietary life of women.
Keywords
dietary life; food; women; social consciousness;
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