The Effect of Healthy Food-Seeking Tendency, Career Preparation Behaviors and Employment Intention: Focused on College Students Majoring in Culinary Arts and Foodservice

This study is aimed at figuring out the effects of major selecting motivation on dropout, academic achievement, and major satisfactions of college students majoring in foodservice and culinary arts. To accomplish this, an empirical survey was conducted through a structural equation model. These findings showed that students are likely to drop out of college due to a career change or major maladjustment if they decide their major in consideration of college reputation or department recognition rather than their aptitude. Unlike existing studies, this study has practical implications concerning the importance of these factors in that their academic achievement is affected by their relationship and perception of their major satisfactions rather than their major selection motivations.

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“Spending all this time stressing and worrying and calculating”: Marginal Food Security and Student Life at a Diverse Urban University

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980021001300 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Ryan J Gamba ◽

Michael T Schmeltz ◽

Nancy Ortiz ◽

Alina Engelman ◽

Juleen Lam ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Food Security ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Academic Motivation ◽

Physical Symptoms ◽

Healthy Food ◽

High Food ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Future Health ◽

Food Security Status

Abstract Objective: Food security status is a continuum ranging from high to very low food security. While marginal food security falls next to high food security on the spectrum, new quantitative research indicates marginal food security status is associated with negative health outcomes and poor academic performance among college students. Qualitative research focusing on college students experiencing marginal food security has not been conducted. This study aims to qualitatively explore experiences of college students with marginal food security and to identify themes to better understand and provide context regarding how marginal food security impacts students. Design: Students were recruited for semi-structured interviews with questions designed to study the challenges associated with students’ food situations. All interviews were recorded and transcribed with themes identified via an inductive approach. Setting: A large public university on the US west coast. Participants: Thirty college students. Results: Key themes that emerged: purchasing cheap unhealthy foods; insufficient time to prepare and eat meals on a regular basis; stress and anxiety around the inability to eat healthy food and future health issues; self-perception of health when eating poorly along with physical symptoms; and low academic motivation by not fully participating in their courses due to few healthy food options or missing meals. Conclusion: Marginal food security can potentially diminish students’ health and their capacity to learn and succeed in their coursework. The results emphasize that students experiencing marginal food security should not be grouped with students experiencing high food security.

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