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Identifier	Thesis 2176
Author	Marien, Melissa A., 1983-
Title	Food cravings and attitudes toward physical activity as predictors of GPA and BMI: the role of mood, stress, and self-esteem
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2011
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	College students’ participation in health promoting attitudes, specifically food cravings and positive attitudes towards physical activity were examined. It was hypothesized that positive affect, self-esteem, and perceived stress would act as mediators between food cravings and attitudes towards exercise and grade point average (GPA) and body mass index (BMI). Positive attitudes towards exercise would predict greater positive affect and self-esteem and lower perceived stress, which in turn would predict higher GPA and lower BMI. Food cravings would predict lower positive affect and self-esteem and greater perceived stress, which in turn would predict lower GPA and higher BMI. Pearson correlations were used to test the proposed direct relationships between variables. Participants were recruited through the Central Connecticut State University undergraduate psychology participant pool and completed the survey materials online via surveymonkey.com. In this study, the participants completed five surveys. The Food- Craving Inventory was used to assess dietary food cravings. The Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale measured participant’s attitudes about exercise. The Positive and Negative Affect Scale, PANAS measured independent measures of positive and negative affect. The Perceived Stress Scale measured perceptions of stressful life events, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale assessed participants’ feelings of self worth. The bivariate relationships partially supported the first hypothesis that college students’ low food cravings would predict greater positive affect. High food cravings were significantly (p<.05) and positively correlated with positive affect. This finding shows that the higher the food cravings the higher the positive mood. This means those who have food cravings and may eat poor nutritional foods may have increased positive mood, possibly because of eating high sugar snacks which release endorphins. Positive attitudes toward exercise was significantly Health 4 (p<.05) and positively correlated with positive affect and negatively related to perceived stress as predicted. This finding means that exercise can increase mood and decrease stress levels, which can be due to the body’s release of endorphins during exercise. Pearsons correlations did not support any other bivariate relationships that were predicted. A major purpose of the study was to test whether, positive attitudes towards physical activity and food cravings would have indirect effects on BMI and GPA through positive affect, self esteem, and perceived stress. Preacher and Hayes’ (2008) bootstrapping approach was used to test the indirect effects. None of the proposed indirect effects were found to be significant. Direct effects testing the relationships between food cravings and attitudes towards exercise with GPA or BMI were not supported. This finding may be due to the fact that the study measured attitudes and not behaviors. Three other significant bivariate relationships that were not hypothesized were found to be significant: perceived stress was significantly (p<.05) and positively correlated with positive affect, positive attitudes towards exercise were significantly (p<.05) and positively correlated with high food cravings and positive attitudes towards exercise were significantly (p<.05) and positively correlated with positive affect.
Subject	College students -- Exercise -- Attitudes College students -- Food -- Attitudes
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	DiPlacido, Joanne
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	804653146
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