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. 2022 Aug 23:10:e13839.
doi: 10.7717/peerj.13839. eCollection 2022.

Impact of emotional intelligence on adherence to the Mediterranean diet in elementary education school students. A structural equation model

Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez  1 , Georgian Badicu  2 , Filipe Manuel Clemente  3   4   5 , Ana Filipa Silva  3   4 , Jose Luis Ubago-Jiménez  1 , Gabriel González-Valero  6
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Impact of emotional intelligence on adherence to the Mediterranean diet in elementary education school students. A structural equation model

Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez et al. PeerJ. .

Abstract

Background: Adolescence is one of the stages where a large number of physical, psychological and emotional changes occur, the latter playing a key role in adherence to a healthy dietary pattern. Taking into account the above, this research reflects the objectives of developing an explanatory model of the incidence of attention, clarity and emotional repair on adherence to the Mediterranean diet and to contrast the structural model through a multigroup analysis based on Mediterranean adherence to this dietary pattern.

Methods: To this end, a comparative descriptive cross-sectional study has been carried out with 293 students from the third cycle of primary education. The instruments used were a sociodemographic questionnaire, the KIDMED test and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24).

Results: Students who show low adherence to the Mediterranean diet have a negative association with the repair of negative emotions. Participants who show a medium adherence to the Mediterranean diet, it is observed that they have a negative relationship with emotional clarity, while students who claim to have a high adherence to the Mediterranean diet show positive relationships with each of the constructs that make up emotional intelligence.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence; Mediterranean diet; Teenagers.

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Conflict of interest statement

Georgian Badicu and Filipe Manuel Clemente are Academic Editors for PeerJ.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Proposed theoretical model.
Emotional Attention (EA); emotional Clarity (EC); emotional Repair (ER); Mediterranean Diet Adherence (MDA).
Figure 2
Figure 2. Theoretical model proposed for low adherence to the Mediterranean diet.
Emotional Attention (EA); Emotional Clarity (EC); Emotional Repair (ER); Mediterranean Diet Adherence (MDA).
Figure 3
Figure 3. Theoretical model proposed for medium adherence to the Mediterranean diet.
Emotional Attention (EA); Emotional Clarity (EC); Emotional Repair (ER); Mediterranean Diet Adherence (MDA).
Figure 4
Figure 4. Theoretical model proposed for high adherence to the Mediterranean diet.
Emotional Attention (EA); Emotional Clarity (EC); Emotional Repair (ER); Mediterranean Diet Adherence (MDA).
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