Impact of emotional intelligence on adherence to the Mediterranean diet in elementary education school students. A structural equation model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence is one of the stages where a large number of physical, psychological and emotional changes occur, the latter playing a key role in adherence to a healthy dietary pattern. Taking into account the above, this research reflects the objectives of developing an explanatory model of the incidence of attention, clarity and emotional repair on adherence to the Mediterranean diet and to contrast the structural model through a multigroup analysis based on Mediterranean adherence to this dietary pattern.

Methods

To this end, a comparative descriptive cross-sectional study has been carried out with 293 students from the third cycle of primary education. The instruments used were a sociodemographic questionnaire, the KIDMED test and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-

SUBMITTER: Melguizo-Ibanez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9415353 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature