Preliminary Finnish Measures of Eating Competence Suggest Association with Health-Promoting Eating Patterns and Related Psychobehavioral Factors in 10–17 Year Old Adolescents
Tilles-Tirkkonen, T., Nuutinen, O., Suominen, S., Liukkonen, J., Poutanen, K., & Karhunen, L. (2015). Preliminary Finnish Measures of Eating Competence Suggest Association with Health-Promoting Eating Patterns and Related Psychobehavioral Factors in 10–17 Year Old Adolescents. Nutrients, 7(5), 3828-3846. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu7053828
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Eating competence is an attitudinal and behavioral concept, based on The Satter
Eating Competence Model. In adults, it has been shown to be associated with a higher quality
of diet. Eating competence or its association with the quality of diet has not been studied
in adolescents. The aim of the current study was to explore the utility of using a preliminary
Finnish translation of the ecSI 2.0 for evaluating presumed eating competence and its
association with food selection, meal patterns and related psychobehavioral factors in
10–17 year old adolescents. Altogether 976 10–17 years old Finnish adolescents filled in the
study questionnaire. When exploring the construct validity of ecSI 2.0, the confirmatory
factor analysis (CFA) indicated acceptable model fit and all four components of the ecSI 2.0
(eating attitudes, food acceptance, internal regulation of food intake, management of eating
context) correlated with each other and were internally consistent. Over half (58%) of the
adolescents scored 32 or higher and were thus classified as presumably eating competent (pEC).
Eating competence was associated with greater meal frequency, more frequent consumption
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of vegetables and fruits, and more health-promoting family eating patterns. In addition
the pEC, adolescents more often perceived their body size as appropriate, had less often tried
to lose weight and had a higher self-esteem and a stronger sense of coherence than the not
pEC ones. Family eating patterns and self-esteem were the main underlying factors of
eating competence. In conclusion, this preliminary study suggests eating competence could
be a useful concept to characterize eating patterns and related behaviors and attitudes
in adolescents. However, these preliminary findings need to be confirmed in further studies
with an instrument fully validated for this age group.
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