Associations of Eating Identities With Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Body Mass Index.

ABSTRACT:

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To inform dietary interventions, it is important to understand antecedents of recommended (henceforth: healthy) dietary behaviors, beyond dietary beliefs and self-efficacy. We used the validated "Eating Identity Type Inventory" to assess the extent to which participants identified as healthy eaters, meat eaters, emotional eaters or picky eaters. We examined correlations between participants' race/ethnicity and other socio-demographic characteristics and affinity with these eating identities, how affinity with these eating identities correlated with self-reports of dietary beliefs, self-efficacy, dietary behaviors and Body Mass Index (BMI), and how well affinity with these eating identities predicted self-reported dietary behaviors and BMI, as compared to self-reported die

SUBMITTER: Sleboda P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9330157 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature