Why HKU Students Skip Meals

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behavior of skipping meals.


2. Choice of Research Topic

As one who has suffered from eating disorder resulting from skipping meals too frequently, I am interested at people's eating habits. It is during university years that many individuals take responsibility for matters of health and lifestyle choices which have the potential to form the foundation for future health or illness (Michael, Bhibha, Ellen, & Rod, 2014). Empirical data shows a higher rate of unhealthy lifestyle in university students (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2008). And I have observed that many HKU students skipping meals when I interacted with them. So finding out why they skip meals can certainly contribute to the health promotion. Not only does this research have practical significance, it is theoretically important as well. In the early literature search, it shocked me that so few non-western sociologists paid attention to this phenomenon during such an important life ...

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of the family environment. The socialization of young adulthood is a negotiated balance between an emerging sense of self as competent on one hand, a feeling of connection with significant others on the other (Furstenberg, 2000). Surveys of both parents and their offspring indicate that parents generally change the techniques of control during the course of adolescents changing into adults. Direct monitoring declines, and parents typically relax rules for older adolescence, believing that they can count on their children to follow their directives (Furstenberg, 2000). Both genders experienced decreased stress from parents (Economos, Hildebrandt, & Hyatt, 2008).

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