Psychological dependence of fast food among adolescents
Fast food faces a serious problem of causing heavy addiction to the public in the United States, especially in the adolescents. Fast food industry in the United States can be traced back to almost a century ago, since when the dependence appears occur. There are a variety of aspects influence the fast food mental addiction. In this article, three literatures will be reviewed and discussed around the theme “psychological dependence of fast food”. For instance, (Gearhardt, 2011) did research on the environmental aspects of the influences on fast food.
Regarding the fast food, it appears that restaurants, such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell, are more popular among the adolescents than the adults. …show more content…
The main measurement applied in the first part of the experiment was food addiction scores and blood oxygen level-dependent fMRI activation. Four participants with significant missing data on the Yale Food Addiction Scale and five participants …show more content…
Throughout their experiments, the self-administered questionnaire especially designed for the study requested about sociodemographic information, frequency of fast-food consumption, definition of “fast food,” location of purchase, and psychosocial correlates. Five psychosocial factors were seperated by using principal components analysis with a method called Varimax rotationand eigenvalues. Descriptive statistics and a hierarchical linear regression model were applied to predict the frequency of fast-food consumption. From the result of the research, Responses from hundreds of adolescents whose ages ranging from 12 to 17 years old reveal that daily consumption of fast food was 1.8 times more frequently referred to by rural adolescents compared with urban youth. The differences between the urban and the rural were shown in the way adolescents classified fast foods and in purchasing locations. Living in rural areas, convenience and availability of foods are highly regarded as the main factor that causes the psychological dependence whereas health awareness predicted a lower frequency among the participants. It can be concluded that the constructive development of the rural and urban areas accelerated the convenience and the availability for the public to eat fast
Fast food faces a serious problem of causing heavy addiction to the public in the United States, especially in the adolescents. Fast food industry in the United States can be traced back to almost a century ago, since when the dependence appears occur. There are a variety of aspects influence the fast food mental addiction. In this article, three literatures will be reviewed and discussed around the theme “psychological dependence of fast food”. For instance, (Gearhardt, 2011) did research on the environmental aspects of the influences on fast food.
Regarding the fast food, it appears that restaurants, such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell, are more popular among the adolescents than the adults. …show more content…
The main measurement applied in the first part of the experiment was food addiction scores and blood oxygen level-dependent fMRI activation. Four participants with significant missing data on the Yale Food Addiction Scale and five participants …show more content…
Throughout their experiments, the self-administered questionnaire especially designed for the study requested about sociodemographic information, frequency of fast-food consumption, definition of “fast food,” location of purchase, and psychosocial correlates. Five psychosocial factors were seperated by using principal components analysis with a method called Varimax rotationand eigenvalues. Descriptive statistics and a hierarchical linear regression model were applied to predict the frequency of fast-food consumption. From the result of the research, Responses from hundreds of adolescents whose ages ranging from 12 to 17 years old reveal that daily consumption of fast food was 1.8 times more frequently referred to by rural adolescents compared with urban youth. The differences between the urban and the rural were shown in the way adolescents classified fast foods and in purchasing locations. Living in rural areas, convenience and availability of foods are highly regarded as the main factor that causes the psychological dependence whereas health awareness predicted a lower frequency among the participants. It can be concluded that the constructive development of the rural and urban areas accelerated the convenience and the availability for the public to eat fast