In Which Situations Do We Eat? A Diary Study on Eating Situations and Situational Stability.

ABSTRACT: Eating situations are crucial for understanding and changing eating behavior. While research on individual situational dimensions exists, little is known about eating situations as a whole. This study aimed to fill this gap by identifying eating situations as combinations of multiple situational dimensions and describing how stable individuals eat in those situations. In a five-day online diary study, 230 participants reported a total of 2461 meals and described the corresponding eating situation using predefined situational dimensions. Divisive hierarchical cluster analyses were conducted separately for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, resulting in unique cluster solutions that characterized the most common eating situations. The most common breakfast situations were characterized by a combi

SUBMITTER: Wowra P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10537183 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature