Healthy Eating Self‐Schema and Nutrition Behavior1
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 34 (12) , 2437-2451
Abstract
The nutrition behavior of female college students who differed in healthy eater self‐schema status was investigated. Forty‐nine female students enrolled in a nutrition class (27 schematics, 22 nonschematics) provided 4‐day food diaries. Analyses revealed that students who saw themselves as healthy eaters consumed more fiber and less total fat than did those without such a self‐schema. In addition, higher percentages of healthy eater schematics met the dietary guidelines for fiber, total fat, and dietary cholesterol. No group differences were found for either saturated fat or sugar intake.Keywords
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