The longitudinal associations between perceived descriptive peer norms and eating and drinking behavior: An initial examination in young adults

This current study surveyed 757 sets of adolescents and parents to test the amount of influence parents have on their adolescents compared to the power their peers have, with regard to fruit and vegetable consumption in this case. It was found that parents still hold more influence on the adolescents’ fruit and vegetable intake, with […]

The purpose of this 2020 study was to analyze the key underlying mechanisms by which preadolescents’ healthy eating behaviors are influenced by peer-related social factors. Ragelienė & Grønhøj recruited 278 Lithuanian preadolescents from a public school, and administered them with questionnaires on sociodemographics, peer-related social norms of healthy eating, food intake, vegetable preference, need for […]