THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEHAVIORAL - NUTRITIONAL PREFERENCES WITH QUALITY OF LIFE IN ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF KHORASGAN (ISFAHAN)

Maryam Rajabi; Sayyed Hamid Atashpour; Mohammad Goli

doi:10.65453/ajbmr.v3i9.661

Authors

Maryam Rajabi 1M.A of Department of Psychology, Khorasgan(Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Sayyed Hamid Atashpour Assistant Professor of Department of Psychology, Khorasgan(Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Mohammad Goli Assistant Professor of Department of Food Science and Technology, Khorasgan(Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.65453/ajbmr.v3i9.661

Keywords:

Behavioral - Nutritional preferences, dietary patterns, quality of life

Abstract

Modifying consumption patterns is something universal, behavioral and social and to achieve the correct patterns of onsumption we should be targeted and we should move toward with the proper look towards the future. The purpose of this study was to
investigate the relation between behavioral-nutritional preferences with quality of life in the undergraduate students of the Islamic Azad University of Khorasgan. In this correlation study, 310 students in the fields of law, physical education, psychology and the food industry were selected by available sampling method. They completed a researcher-made Behavioral - Nutritional Preferences questionnaire (World Health organization’s Quality of Life Questionnaire). In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis method was used in the stepwise manner. Results indicated that there are significant correlations between psychological health with low protein, fuzzy drinks, fatty pattern preference (P<0.01). Also there are significant correlations between psychological health with Iranian traditional dietary preferences (P<0.01). Regression
analysis (p<0.05) hasn’t been valid for predicting the preference for salty snack food pattern, Asian food pattern, sugary snack food pattern, Western food pattern through life quality and its dimensions.