Institute of Marketing and Commerce, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary.
Nutrients. 2020 Nov 15;12(11):3514. doi: 10.3390/nu12113514.
Several theories have emerged to study types of eating behavior leading to obesity, but most of the applied models are mainly related to food choice decisions and food consumer behavior. The purpose of this paper was to examine the eating attitudes of Hungarian consumers by applying the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R21). The national representative questionnaire involved 1000 individuals in Hungary in 2019. Several multivariate statistical techniques were applied for the data analysis: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, multivariate data reduction techniques, and cluster analysis. This study successfully managed to distinguish the following factors: emotional eating, uncontrolled eating, and cognitive restraint. By using the factors, five clusters were identified: Uncontrolled Emotional Eaters; Overweight, Uncontrolled Eaters; Controlled, Conscious Eaters; the Uninterested; and the Rejecters; all of these could be addressed by public health policy with individually tailored messages. The empirical results led to rejection of the original Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R21), while the TFEQ-R16 model could be validated on a representative sample of adults, for the first time in Hungary.
已经出现了几种理论来研究导致肥胖的不同类型的进食行为，但大多数应用模型主要与食物选择决策和食物消费行为有关。本文旨在通过应用三因素饮食问卷（TFEQ-R21）来研究匈牙利消费者的饮食态度。该全国代表性问卷于 2019 年涉及了 1000 名匈牙利个体。研究采用了几种多元统计技术进行数据分析：探索性和验证性因子分析、多元数据降维技术和聚类分析。这项研究成功地区分了以下因素：情绪性进食、失控性进食和认知约束。通过使用这些因素，确定了五个聚类：失控性情绪化进食者、超重且失控进食者、控制性、有意识进食者、不感兴趣者和拒绝者；所有这些都可以通过针对个体定制信息的公共卫生政策来解决。实证结果导致对原始三因素饮食问卷（TFEQ-R21）的拒绝，而 TFEQ-R16 模型可以首次在匈牙利对成人代表性样本进行验证。
