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Nutrición Hospitalaria
versión On-line ISSN 1699-5198versión impresa ISSN 0212-1611
Resumen
ONETTI, Wanesa; ALVAREZ-KUROGI, Leandro y CASTILLO-RODRIGUEZ, Alfonso. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet pattern and self-concept in adolescents. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2019, vol.36, n.3, pp.658-664. Epub 17-Feb-2020. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.02214.
Introduction:
adolescence is characterized by being a decisive phase that consolidates both the personality development (attending to various psychosocial factors that influence), and the achievement of habits that will be established in adulthood.
Objectives:
to relate the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) in adolescents with the self-concept dimensions.
Methods:
cross-sectional observational study of the adherence to MD level through the MEDAS-14 test and perception of the academic, social, emotional, family and physical dimensions of the self-concept, evaluated through the AF-5 test in 600 adolescents from the south of Spain.
Results:
the adherence to MD was positively related to the academic level, age and academic self-concept (r = 0.19 to 0.33, p < 0.01), being predicted by 13% of the variance explained by the academic self-concept, and 13.8%, for the academic and social self-concept (p < 0.01). In addition, 58.3% of adolescents presented high adherence to MD and 13.3% and 28.3%, low and medium adherence to MD, respectively, with a mean of 8.8 points, corresponding to an average assessment.
Conclusions:
the main findings of this study show that adherence to MD is related to academic and social self-concept, age and academic level, which reflects clear food awareness as these variables are evidenced. In addition, adolescents have an average adherence to MD, corresponding to a strict dietary pattern, although not healthy.
Palabras clave : Mediterranean diet; Self-concept; Perception; Adolescence; Age; Gender.