The Relationships among Parenting Style, Teacher Discipline, and School Lunch Dietary Behavior of Elementary Students.

• Main Authors: CHAN, SHU-JU, 詹淑如
• Other Authors: YANG, CHEN-LUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45874170543702727755

碩士 === 中華大學 === 科技管理學系 === 105 === The high rate of obesity and imbalanced nutrient uptake in Taiwanese children have severely affected their health development. Parents are the key to influencing children’s dietary behaviors, since parents’ behaviors and attitudes are the primary model for their children to imitate and learn from. In addition to family, school are another location that can systematically teach nutritious dietary behaviors with its educational purpose. Hence, homes and schools are the two major environments for cultivating positive dietary behaviors in school children. Parents and teachers are also the important models who affect school children’s learning. In consideration of these factors, this study planned to investigate the relationship between parenting styles, teacher disciplines, and elementary school children’s lunchtime dietary behaviors from both the parents and teachers’ perspectives. By doing so, this study expected to provide references for parents, teachers, and school in improving children’s healthy diets. In order to achieve the study objective, this study made use of research on dietary behaviors by researchers such as Man-Yin Huang (2013) and Yueh-Ching Chou (2010) as the basis for questionnaire design. The questionnaire includes the four variables of dietary preference, dietary attitude, dietary hygiene, and dietary etiquette. Moreover, by basing on the bi-dimensional theory of “demand” and “response” proposed by Maccoby and Martin (1983), the questionnaire also analyzed the types of parenting styles and teacher disciplines. After the questionnaire was designed, this study surveyed elementary school students in New Taipei City between Grade four and six. A total of 524 effective questionnaires were obtained, with a 95.2% response rate. After collecting the data, this study applied K-means cluster analysis and MANOVA for statistical analysis. The study results showed that parents and teachers can be classified into four types: “authoritative,” “authoritarian,” “indulgent,” and “uninvolved.” Different parenting styles and teacher disciplines had significant effects on elementary school children’s lunchtime dietary behaviors. In terms of parents, school children with authoritative parents had better dietary behaviors than those with uninvolved parents. For teachers, it was also revealed that school children with authoritative teachers showed better dietary behaviors than those with uninvolved teachers. This finding will be able to serve as a reference for parents and teachers to guide school children’s dietary behaviors, which will lead school children to establish positive dietary habits and promote their health development.