2000 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 23-30
A questionnaire was carried out for senior high school students to clarify how their consciousness of dietary life was influenced by learning and daily experience of food and nutrition. The results were as follows: 1. The importance of the health were recognized, but the perception of importance of the health were lower relatively in many values on dietary life. 2. Five factors, enjoying and relaxing, eating out and eating between meals, health, eating at will and gourmet, were extracted by a factor analysis of their consciousness of dietary life. 3. The factor scores relevant to enjoying and relaxing and to eating out and eating between meals were significantly difference between male and female, the female students regarded enjoying and relaxing as important factors in dietary life comparing to the male students and showed less inclination to eat out and eat snack. 4. Those having low scores of knowledge of food and nutrition tended to eat out, eat snack and eat at will more frequently than those having high scores. 5. The factor scores relevant to enjoying and relaxing and to eating out and eating between meals were significantly difference with frequency of conversation, those who talk frequently about food life with family showed a marked tendency to enjoy meal and ate out and ate snack less frequently. In conclusion, the study suggested that learning and daily experience of food and nutrition apparently influenced the consciousness of dietary life of the senior high school students.
