Effects of Dietary Experiences in Their Home and Parents-child Interaction on Their Self-independence in the Late Adolescence

Abstract

We were going to verify our hypothesis through the questionnaire studies that a mealtime is the most important chance for children to establish the sense of basic trust with their parents, and the sense of basic trust cultivate the sense ofself-independency of university students, who are in the late adolescence and in psychological weaning stage. And four causal models were established in the case of men and women who lived with or without their parents.Each causal model showed that the sense of self-independency was directly affected by the sense of self-esteem and the sense of resistance and internal confusion.The sense of self-independency and self-esteem were affected directly and/or indirectly by the degree of satisfaction with the parents-child interactions and various pleasant experiences concerning to the diet life in the past, the pleasant memories at mealtime, the sense of eating with family members, the memorial taste at home and the less times of eating alone.The importance of diet life in early childhood was suggested and our hypothesis was proved.