Abstract
The relationship of school children's food preference to their personalities and the parent's rearing attitudes was studied by the methods of multiple regression- and discriminant-analysis. The results were as follows;
Though there were some differences between boys and girls, it was found that the elements of cyclic tendency, inferiority feelings, objectivity, cooperativeness, general activity, thinking extraversion, ascendance and social extraversion among the 12 personality traits, and protection, dominance, contradiction and discordance among the 10 parent's attitude types were related to the preference for food; and the contribution ratios in each case were more than 80 %.
Moreover, the estimation of discriminant functions with 10 elements selected by variable appointment procedure of multiple regression-analysis made it possible to classify the samples into 3 groups (the strong likes and dislikes, the ordinary, and the non-fastidious) with the misclassification ratios of about 1532% in range.
