The Psychosocial Antecedents of the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Most previous research on the antecedents of healthy food choice has not investigated the links between these antecedents and has focused on specific food choice rather than on an overall diet. In the present study, we tested the plausibility of an integrated theoretical model aiming to explain the role of different psychosocial factors in increasing the intention to adhere to the Mediterranean Diet (MeDiet).

Design and participants

A sample of 1940 Italian adults participated in an online survey that measured their attitude and perceived behavioral control (i.e., rational antecedents), subjective norm (i.e., social antecedent), positive and negative anticipated emotions (i.e., emotional antecedents), food choice health and mood motives (i.e., motivational antecede

SUBMITTER: Carfora V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991846 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature