• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.339-349
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate dietary behavior relative to personality type in young adults, and to offer basic data to apply during nutrition education and counseling. A total of 166 university students performed the MBTI (Mayers-Briggs Type Indicator) test along with questionnaire interviews, and 3 day 24-hr dietary recalls. MBTI personality preferences are presented and separated by 4 types of indices: Extraversion (E) and Introversion (I), Sensing (S) and Intuition (N), Thinking (T) and Feeling (F), and Judgement (J) and Perception (P). More subjects in the I type than the E type had lunch everyday or ate out more than once a week. Compared to the P type, the J type ate a higher proportion of meals with family, and seldom drank alcohol, but a lower proportion had a preference for salty taste. Compared to the N type, the S type had a higher proportion of subjects who consumed large quantities at regular meals as well as when under high amounts of stress. Also, the S type subjects had significantly higher lipid intakes than the N type subjects. Compared to the F type, a higher proportion of the T type subjects ate meals alone but a lower proportion had a dislike for bitter tasting foods. There were no significant differences in total food or energy intakes relative to the different personality types. In conclusion, individual personality type may influence dietary behavior, but additional studies are needed that contain individuals of various ages and include long term dietary surveys.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.299-317
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• 2014

The objective of this study is to analyse the college students' Internet information activities and life satisfaction with their personality types. For this study, data were collected using self-designed questionnaire which included the items of college students' demographic information, MBTI personality types, and their information activities of the Internet. Total of 480 data were collected and 102 valid data were analysed with the multiple regression using SPSS version 18.0. It was found that extraversion, sensing, thinking, and feeling types of college students were tend to show the higher of their life satisfaction through the online game; introversion, sensing, intuition, thinking, and feeling types of college students were tend to show the lower of their life satisfaction through the internet retrieval; and extraversion, intuition, and feeling types of college students were tend to show the lower of their life satisfaction through the smart-phone messenger use.