The impact that cultural food security has on identity and well-being in the second-generation U.S. American minority college students.

ABSTRACT: Food contributes to an individual's physical and mental well-being and expresses one's cultural identity through preparation, sharing, and consumption (i.e., foodways). Inadequate access to cultural foods can create cultural stress and affect one's identity and well-being. In particular, second-generation U.S. American student populations may have a higher risk for cultural stress due to being away from family, academic stress, environmental changes, and diminished financial stability to purchase cultural foods. Thus, an exploratory qualitative methodology was used to elicit information about second-generation U.S. Americans' food experiences to identify how cultural foods play a role in individual identity and how individual well-being is influenced by the presence or lack of cultural foo

SUBMITTER: Wright KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7829482 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature