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Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle
Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10650094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11212885 |
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author | Benedetto, Loredana Sabato, Ilenia Costanza, Carola Gagliano, Antonella Germanò, Eva Vetri, Luigi Roccella, Michele Parisi, Lucia Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza Ingrassia, Massimo |
author_facet | Benedetto, Loredana Sabato, Ilenia Costanza, Carola Gagliano, Antonella Germanò, Eva Vetri, Luigi Roccella, Michele Parisi, Lucia Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza Ingrassia, Massimo |
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description | Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk and a lower sense of body satisfaction. Considering the spread of non-meat diets in the Western world, researchers have investigated the benefits and risks to physical and psychological health. Despite this, few studies have been conducted on factors influencing adolescent’s vegetarian diet-related attitudes. Through self-administered loosely structured interviews, this research investigated factors potentially associated with vegetarian choices in adolescence. It checked (a) gender differences in vegetarian choices; (b) religious, familial, ethical, or health factors implied in vegetarian choices; and (c) indicators of well-being among young vegetarians. The findings suggest that for our sample, non-vegetarians have lower scores on health-related questions than others, while for vegetarian adolescents, the benefits of vegetarianism mainly depend on their ethical stances, beliefs, and values. Conversely, it is unrelated to factors such as the desire to lose weight, dissatisfaction about one’s body shape, or depressive feelings. |
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spelling | pubmed-106500942023-11-02 Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle Benedetto, Loredana Sabato, Ilenia Costanza, Carola Gagliano, Antonella Germanò, Eva Vetri, Luigi Roccella, Michele Parisi, Lucia Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza Ingrassia, Massimo Healthcare (Basel) Article Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk and a lower sense of body satisfaction. Considering the spread of non-meat diets in the Western world, researchers have investigated the benefits and risks to physical and psychological health. Despite this, few studies have been conducted on factors influencing adolescent’s vegetarian diet-related attitudes. Through self-administered loosely structured interviews, this research investigated factors potentially associated with vegetarian choices in adolescence. It checked (a) gender differences in vegetarian choices; (b) religious, familial, ethical, or health factors implied in vegetarian choices; and (c) indicators of well-being among young vegetarians. The findings suggest that for our sample, non-vegetarians have lower scores on health-related questions than others, while for vegetarian adolescents, the benefits of vegetarianism mainly depend on their ethical stances, beliefs, and values. Conversely, it is unrelated to factors such as the desire to lose weight, dissatisfaction about one’s body shape, or depressive feelings. MDPI 2023-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10650094/ /pubmed/37958029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11212885 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Benedetto, Loredana Sabato, Ilenia Costanza, Carola Gagliano, Antonella Germanò, Eva Vetri, Luigi Roccella, Michele Parisi, Lucia Scaffidi Abbate, Costanza Ingrassia, Massimo Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title | Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title_full | Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title_fullStr | Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title_full_unstemmed | Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title_short | Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle |
title_sort | diet-related attitudes, beliefs, and well-being in adolescents with a vegetarian lifestyle |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10650094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11212885 |
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