Junior High School Students’ Eating Behaviors and Knowledge, Attitudes and Food Consuming Behaviors toward Food Additives -The case of a junior high school in Taoyuan City

• Main Authors: Chi-fang Chang, 張綺方
• Other Authors: C. Will Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08361572391063583703

碩士 === 大同大學 === 生物工程學系(所) === 101 === Food is the basic need for people. People can get sick easily if the food is unsafe. Junior high school students are busy studying and many students have no time eating their three meals at home. Instead of eating at home, they choose food that is convenient to buy. But the food they eat has food additives in it. Food additives are everywhere and easy to be ignored, have played an important part in our health life. Health teenagers are the greatest treasure of a society. The individual’s behavior and attitude toward health are mostly established since one’s adolescence. Therefore, it is worthwhile to understand the teenagers’ concern for food additives. This study aimed to investigate junior high school students’ eating behaviors and knowledge, attitudes and food consuming behaviors toward food additives. This study would also explore the personal factors affecting and their relationship. By using random cluster sampling, junior high school students from Taoyuan Junior High School were selected to answer a questionnaire based survey. The samples came from three classes for each grade and with 211 effective responses. The results were as follow ： 1. Only 8.5% of students had their meals at home. Of all the students, the ninth graders behaved worst in eating behaviors. 2. The ninth graders had the best knowledge toward food additives. And there was positive relevance between the knowledge toward food additives and attitudes toward food additives. The students with good knowledge of food additives had good attitudes. The attitudes toward food additives were positive correlated with the food consuming behaviors toward food additives. The students with good attitudes toward food additives had better food consuming behaviors toward food additives.