Food choices among newly married couples: convergence, conflict, individualism, and projects

Bove, Caron F.; Sobal, Jeffery; Rauschenbach, Barbara S.

doi:10.1016/s0195-6663(02)00147-2

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“…Married individuals may eat more frequent family meals because they share joint households and a partnership where eating together is a marital ideal (32) . Individuals who are employed full-time year-round may eat family meals less frequently because of time demands of work and commuting, compared with part-time and seasonal workers, unemployed, retired and disabled individuals who have greater time available to them (40) .…”

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Family meals and body weight in US adults

Sobal

Hanson

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: Family meals are an important ritual in contemporary societies and many studies have reported associations of family meals with several biopsychosocial outcomes among children and adolescents. However, few representative analyses of family meals have been conducted in samples of adults, and adults may differ from young people in predictors and outcomes of family meal consumption. We examined the prevalence and predictors of adult family meals and body weight outcomes. Design: The cross-sectional 2009 Cornell National Social Survey (CNSS) included questions about the frequency of family meals, body weight as BMI and sociodemographic characteristics. Setting: The CNSS telephone survey used random digit dialling to sample individuals. Subjects: We analysed data from 882 adults living with family members in a nationally representative US sample. Results: Prevalence of family meals among these adults revealed that 53 % reported eating family meals seven or more times per week. Predictive results revealed that adults who more frequently ate family meals were more likely to be married and less likely to be employed full-time, year-round. Outcome results revealed that the overall frequency of family meals among adults was not significantly associated with any measure of body weight. However, interaction term analysis suggested an inverse association between frequency of family meals and BMI for adults with children in the household, and no association among adults without children. Conclusions: These findings suggest that family meals among adults are commonplace, associated with marital and work roles, and marginally associated with body weight only in households with children.

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Family meals and body weight in US adults

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Hanson

2011

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“…Rappoport (2003) describes the social experience of eating for a couple from the first date through the first year of marriage. Bove, Sobal , and Rauschenbach (2003) found that indeed these preferences for food were issues involved with marital adjustment and that unresolved decisions regarding food led to marital conflict.…”

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Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Husband-Wife Decision Making

Bonds‐Raacke

2006

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Cluster analysis has a rich history in many disciplines and although cluster analysis has been used in clinical psychology to identify types of disorders, its use in other areas of psychology has been less popular. The purpose of the current experiments was to use cluster analysis to investigate husband-wife decision making. Cluster analysis was selected to illustrate the point that it can be a beneficial multivariate technique when researching husband-wife decision making by examining similar decision-making strategies used by couples and comparing joint decisions to individual decisions.For the current experiments, participants (26 couples) watched 6 movie trailers and viewed 6 sample restaurant menus. After viewing each, participants indicated how likely they would be to go to view the movie or to eat at the restaurant. Participants completed the task first independently and then jointly. Cluster analysis was used to provide the desired information by (a) forming clusters of couples in general who used common decision-making strategies and (b) forming clusters to show which spouse's decision-making strategy independently was more similar to the joint strategy. Results from the cluster analysis are discussed in light of other statistical procedures commonly used to examine husband-wife decision-making strategies.

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“…Another limitation of the previous research is that it is mostly based on qualitative interviews with couples shortly before and after marriage or when starting cohabitation (21)(22)(23) . Moreover, the majority of those studies focused on marriage per se rather than on cohabitation.…”

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Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

Hartmann

Dohle

Siegrist

2014

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Objective: We compared the dietary behaviour of three different household types and explored developmental trends in food choices following a life event. Design: The study is based on data from three Swiss Food Panel survey periods. A cross-sectional comparison between household types was conducted by using a one-way independent ANOVA. Repeated measures were analysed with a mixed ANCOVA to examine changes in dietary behaviour following a life event. Setting: Participants in the survey filled in a questionnaire in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. Subjects: The final sample consisted of 3559 persons with a mean age of 56 years (range 22-94 years; 46 % men). Seventy-two people moved in with their partner and sixty-five people reported the birth of their first child. Results: Cross-sectional evidence confirmed that women living in households with a partner reported higher consumption frequencies for meat and processed meats compared with those living alone. Men living in cohabitation had a higher vegetable intake. The transitional effect of moving in with a partner, however, resulted in a higher intake of processed meats for both genders and a higher intake of pork and savoury items for men. Transition to motherhood was linked to an increase in vegetable consumption, while the transition to fatherhood did not change consumption patterns significantly. Conclusions: Individuals in life-stage transitions are more likely to change their nutritional strategies and life events can be a window of opportunity for changes towards better food choices. Keywords Moving in Marriage Life events HouseholdSocial influences and interactions embedded in our domestic environment seem to play an important and critical role in the development and regulation of our eating behaviour (1) . Efforts to implement changes in our daily eating routines fail not least because the domestic environment, which often remains constant over long periods, can trigger disadvantageous eating habits. Therefore, it is especially interesting to investigate special periods in a person's life that might be associated with adopting new eating patterns. To gain insights into the individual's dietary behavioural development over time and to detect factors triggering change, previous research has focused on special periods marked by major events in a person's life. Special life events such as childbearing, starting to cohabit with a partner or leaving home are powerful determinants of rapid changes in a person's domestic environment. They indicate transitions from one life stage to another, and are accompanied by the acquisition of new social roles and changes in family status and living environments (2,3) . These new life circumstances require behavioural adaptations in general, lead to changes in consumer behaviour in particular (4,5) and might also be linked to the acquisition of new nutritional strategies.

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Food choices among newly married couples: convergence, conflict, individualism, and projects

Cited by 199 publications

References 62 publications

Family meals and body weight in US adults

Family meals and body weight in US adults

Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Husband-Wife Decision Making

Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood

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