Comportamente alimentare cu risc în relaţie cu trăsături de personalitate la studenţii din judeţul Timiş, România (studiu de caz-control)

Abstract

In the performed study we investigated the existence of a relation between students` personality features and diet risk behaviors. The material was a sample consisted in 2074 students, 62.48 % girls and 37.51 % boys, aged between 18 and 25 years. The method (observational inquiry) consisted in two questionnaire applying: Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI, 212 items) and CORT 2004 (126 items, from which we selected 11 items (Q100-Q109), that refers to diet behavior. We chose for our study 2 groups of students: group of control – no consumption and group of study – 2 or more times/day consumption of a certain food. Statistical work was realized by the support of SPSS 16 Program. Obtained results: we identified a statistical significant difference between the 2 groups of students (case-control) of sweets consumption for sincerity (χ2=7.997, Sig.0.018) and of fried potatoes consumption for aggressiveness (χ2=6.334, Sig.0.042). A positive correlation was registered between sweets consumption-sincerity (γ=0.342, Sig.0.004), between fried potatoes consumption-aggressiveness (γ=0.373, Sig.0.039) and fried potatoes consumption-domination (γ=0.398, Sig.0.024). In conclusion, there is a positive relation, statistical significant between sweets consumption and sincerity and between fried potatoes consumption and aggressiveness, domination at the investigated students