The present study investigated people's perception of their own as compared to their peers' healthy eating and related these perceptions to actual healthy eating, BMI, and subsequent healthy eating behavior. Data were collected within the framework of the longitudinal cohort study Konstanz Life Study (T1: N = 770; T2: N = 510). Our results demonstrated an optimistic bias on the group level. Spe...

BACKGROUND To investigate the efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict healthy eating behavior in a group of urban Native American youth. METHODS Native American boys and girls (n = 139), ages 9-18 years old, were given a self-administered survey to assess eating behavior using the TBP constructs (intention, attitude, subjective norm, barriers, self-efficacy, and perceived ...

Purpose: Purpose of this descriptive research is to examine the correlation of alexithymia, anger and binge eating behavior of university students to prepare the basic data to develop nursing intervention which could be helpful to control anger and binge eating behavior. Method: Study subjects were targeting 412 university students and the correlation between alexithymia, anger and binge eating...