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Self regulation and diet as predictors of life satisfaction
Author(s) -
Frye Kala M,
Morrell Jesse Stabile,
Carey Gale B,
Warner Rebecca
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.626.8
Subject(s) - mediation , life satisfaction , structural equation modeling , healthy diet , fish <actinopterygii> , environmental health , gerontology , consumption (sociology) , cross sectional study , psychology , association (psychology) , demography , medicine , food science , biology , social psychology , law , psychotherapist , social science , statistics , mathematics , pathology , fishery , sociology , political science
This study examined whether self regulation predicts healthy diet and whether diet predicts life satisfaction among university students. Participants (n=333; 78% female) were recruited in Sept 2012 from the College Health and Nutrition Assessment Survey, an ongoing cross‐sectional study examining the health of traditionally‐aged (18–24 years) college adults at the University of New Hampshire. Data were collected from an online survey containing questions about self regulation skills, servings of fruits, vegetables and milk per day, servings of fish per week, and life satisfaction. Structural equation modeling was used to assess whether dietary variables may partially mediate the association between self regulation and life satisfaction. Statistically significant mediation was found only for fruits and vegetables; higher scores on self regulation predicted more daily fruit/vegetable consumption, and higher fruit/vegetable consumption predicted higher life satisfaction.