According, against, and above dietary norms: a key to understanding the relationship between personality style and taste preferences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding individual food preferences is critical for creating tailored strategies that promote healthy individual eating behaviors. Individual sensory liking appears to be an essential determinant of dietary intake. Taste preferences influence satisfaction and satiety, and may consequently influence weight status and psychological adjustment. The purpose of this study was to identify the association between taste preferences (sweet, salty, sweet & fatty, salty & fatty) and personality features.

Methods

The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) was used for the assessment of personality traits and PrefQuest (PQ) was used for measuring recalled food preferences. A total of 137 participants were included in the study. The relationship between compu

SUBMITTER: Petre LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6901004 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature