Association of anthropometric status, perceived stress, and personality traits with eating behavior in university students.

Purpose: We investigated the association of anthropometric status, perceived stress, and personality traits with eating behavior in university students.

Methods: The participants, 1546 Japanese university students (964 males, 582 females), completed a questionnaire which asked for their current height and weight, ideal height and weight, eating behaviors, perceived stress, and personality traits.

Results: Restrained eating was higher in normal-weight participants compared with underweight participants in both males and females (p < 0.

Association of social support with gratitude and sense of coherence in Japanese young women: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: Recent studies have shown that perceived social support is associated with gratitude and sense of coherence, but evidence for this concept remains scarce. In the present study, we investigated relationships between social support, gratitude, and sense of coherence, focusing on the construct of and source of social support among young women.

Methods: The study was conducted in 2014 in Japan.

Cardiovascular response to short-term fasting in menstrual phases in young women: an observational study.

Background: Menstrual cycle-related symptoms are an important health issue for many women, and some may affect cardiac autonomic regulation. In the present study, we evaluated the cardiovascular and physiological stress response to 12-h short-term fasting in the menstrual phases of healthy young women.

Methods: We performed a randomized crossover study.

Influences of peers' and family members' body shapes on perception of body image and desire for thinness in Japanese female students.

Purpose: The present study investigated the influence of peers' and family members' body shapes on the perception of body image and desire for thinness in Japanese female students.

Methods: The study included 342 female, Japanese university students between the ages of 18 years and 22 years. They completed an anonymous questionnaire, which included questions related to anthropometry and body perception.

Eating behavior and perception of body shape in Japanese university students.

Purpose: We investigated the relationship between eating behavior measured by the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) and perception of body shape, examining the current physical status and 'ideal' physical parameters in females and males.

Methods: The participants, 548 Japanese university students (age 19.2 ± 0.

Relationship of a desire of thinness and eating behavior among Japanese underweight female students.

Objective: We conducted a questionnaire survey among Japanese female students to explore the influence of a desire for thinness and dietary behaviors on the development of eating disorders.

Methods: Self-reported measures of socio-demographic characteristics, body weight perception, height and weight, and dietary and exercise behavior were completed by 631 female university students at 6 universities in Kyoto, Japan.

Results: Many students had a desire for thinness (underweight students, 51.

[Association between normal weight obesity and diet behaviors in female students].

Objectives: The association between normal weight obesity and diet behavior and physical activity in female students was investigated in this study.

Methods: The subjects were 530 female students aged 18-21 years from 6 universities in the Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. From January to July, 2010, the body fat and walk counts of these students were measured, and they answered a questionnaire.

Combined influence of media use on subjective health in elementary school children in Japan: a population-based study.

Background: In recent years in Japan, electronic games, home computers, and the internet have assumed an important place in people's lives, even for elementary school children. Subjective health complaints have also become a problem among children. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between media use and health status in elementary school children in Japan.