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KMID : 0381019760090010025
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Korean Journal of Nutrition
1976 Volume.9 No. 1 p.25 ~ p.42
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A Study of Children´s Dietary Habits, focusing on Parental Influences
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Abstract
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In order to determine nutrition education needs and related problems, a study was conducted of children´s dietary habits, focusing on parental influence and degree of agreement between parent and child on foods liked, accepted, or disliked, in addition to a general survey of food atiitudes.
This study was conducted throughout a two-mont:i period, June to July of 1974. One thousand children of both sexes, from the fifth grade, junior and senior high schools of Seoul city, and their 2, 000 matched parents, were surveyed, Teachers distributed questionnaires in the classroom and assisted the children in answering. Questionnaires also were distributed to the parents through their children, after the teachers explained the procedure of study.
As to the influence of parents´ food preferences, the following conclusiolns can be reached, in light of the results of chi-square tests conducted:
1. Agreement between mother and child on food preference was much higher than that between father and child, regardless of sex or birth order of the child. This observed dif:erence in degree of agreement was grca.est for children in the middle birth order, and greater for girls than for boys.
2. Various food attitudes:
a. Food preferences: Beef, milk, and mandoo (boiled or steamed, filled dumplings; were extremely well liked by all subjects, regardless of age or sex. Cucumber, lettuce, and soi nach also were liked. Most disliked foods were fatty layers of pork and liver. Cooked rice in the too wet or too dry state and pork were low preference items.
b. Socioeconomic background and dietary practice: ?higher educational background of the wife and hi.-her income level of the family were associated with greater knowledge of _i-rition, and interest in family nutrition and in introduci._g ne-,a foods to the family. But use of food as prize or punishment was found, regardless of ..´,e mother´s educational and economic
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c. Change of food habit: Over 70 percent of subjects ad changed and improved their diet-= ary habits, mostly by reason of husbands´ and wives´ mutual influence after marriage.
c This study emphasized the great importance of nutrition_ eudation for mothers, and their
prominent role and responsibility in guiding the family to better nutrition, whatever the mo-
´ they-s educational background.
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