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A Study on Perception of well-being among the High School Student's in Gyeonggi Area (경기지역 남녀고등학생의 웰빙 인식에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Soon;Cho, Jeong Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.303-311
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    • 2010
  • In this study investigation, 550 high school students attending school in Gyeonggi Area were surveyed for their knowledge of well-being perception. The major findings of the study were as follows: The boys found themselves in a better health compared to the girls. Students recognized the well-being food as all kinds of foods, which can improve their health although they had a significantly different opinion on the other things (p<0.001). The students acquired information on well-being through TV shows and the Internet. The students thought that physical and environmental well- being are the most important. In terms of physical well-being, they emphasized regular workout, balanced diet and enough sleep, while reduction of food waste and the use of disposables along with restriction of behavior not to generate environmental hormone were the important aspect for environmental well-being. In terms of eating-out habits, the girls choose healthy menus more often than the boys, and their menu choice was the most influenced by the information provided by TV and newspaper. Generally, the boys expressed more satisfaction with healthy menus than the girls, but the former didn't have a strong intention to reorder the same menu. Although the boys and girls did not have a same reason to select specific menu, both group choose menu to promote their health. The balance of taste and nutrition was identified as the top priority for their choice of well-being menus.

Comparative Study on the Satisfaction Factors of 2009 and 2013 Cheonan Well-being Food Expos (2009와 2013 천안웰빙식품 엑스포 만족도 결정요인 비교연구)

  • Yang, Jong-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.5513-5524
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    • 2014
  • This study empirically compared the Cheonan 2009 Well-being Food Expo with the Cheonan 2013 International Well-being Food Expo in terms of the Expo's content, predictors of satisfaction, and predictors themselves. According to the analysis results, the satisfaction levels of the Expo's contents, Expo's environment, convenient facilities' operations, general satisfaction, and visitor's revisiting intention of the Cheonan 2013 International Well-being Food Expo, were higher than those of the Cheonan 2009 Well-being Food Expo. In addition, all factors of satisfaction except for the convenient facilities' operations are predictors of the visitor's general satisfaction at both expos and the general satisfaction of both expos is a significant factor for visitor's revisiting intention.

A Study of Stress, Food Habits and Well-Being Related Attitudes in Urban Middle-Aged Men (도시 중년 남성의 스트레스 정도와 식습관 및 웰빙 관련 태도에 관한 연구)

  • Myung, Choon-Ok;Nam, Hae-Won;Park, Young-Sim
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.157-168
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    • 2009
  • The principal objective of this study was to provide basic data regarding health care services for middle-aged men, via an analysis of the relationships among stress level, food habits and well-being-related attitudes with social-demographic characteristics and health-related factors. The main findings of this study were as follows. The average age of the participants was $48.7{\pm}5.2$. With regard to health status, 18.8% of the participants were diagnosed with digestive diseases within the past year. Stress levels were higher in the participants with lower levels of educational attainment. Furthermore, participants who had become divorced or lived separately from their families, participants who did not have their own houses, and participants who reported low marital satisfaction also had high levels of stress. Our food habits scores revealed meaningful differences among the study subjects, and were shown to vary with marital satisfaction, occupation, and residence type. In terms of both the importance and practice level of well-being-associated food habits, the most frequent response in this study was 'Consume home-made food rather than processed or ready-to-eat food' ($4.30{\pm}0.86$, $3.68{\pm}1.04$). In terms of importance level, the factors most relevant to well-being in terms of food habits were education level, marital satisfaction, residence type, self-assessed health status, smoking, drinking, regular exercises and leisure activities. With regard to practice levels, the degree to which subjects engaged in food habits targeted toward well-being differed meaningfully depending on marital status, marital satisfaction, residence type, family type, self-assessed health status, smoking, drinking, nutritional supplement intake, regular exercises and leisure activities. After analyzing the correlation among stress level, food habit score and the attitude towards well-being-related dietary habits (importance and practice level), we observed a meaningful relationship between the four factors at the level of p<0.001. According to the above result, continuous attention to health, including the appropriate control of smoking and drinking, as well as, stress management, via regular exercises and appropriate food habits is expected to exert a positive influence on the prevention of disease, and is also expected to improve quality of life. For all well-being-associated items, the importance level was shown to be higher than the practice level. Thus, in order to foster health-oriented food habits, we recommend that a new plan be designed, targeted toward ease of active practice for middle-aged men.

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A Survey of Awareness and Preference for MSG according to the Pursuit of Well-being in Diet (웰빙식생활 추구 정도에 따른 조미료(MSG)에 대한 인식과 기호도 조사)

  • Kil, Ga Young;Jin, So-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.481-490
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    • 2015
  • This research was conducted to examine the awareness and preference levels related to MSG (monosodium glutamate) according to well-being dietary life pursuit attitude factors as well as to improve opportunities to meet value conscious consumption of well-being-oriented customers. According to well-being dietary life pursuit attitude factors, respondents were divided to three clusters, indifference type, well-being-oriented type, and active health action type. Sensory evaluations were carried out on soybean paste soup (Doenjang-guk) and seasoned spinach with different levels of MSG. In the results, 74.4% of all respondents preferred Doenjang soup with 2% MSG, 65.4% preferred seasoned spinach with the same ratio of MSG, and 35.9% preferred seasoned spinach with 0.5% MSG. Regarding the acceptance level of MSG, addition of MSG to improve taste was acceptable to the indifference type (cluster 1). On the contrary, active health action type did not prefer MSG, wanted natural seasonings despite high prices, and preferred to dine at restaurants that serve MSG-free foods. Based on this study, restaurant companies should segment their customers on the basis of MSG usage and establish their positioning strategies according to their concepts.

Study on Healthy Food Behavior and Recognition of Healthy Asian Food (건강 관련 식행동과 아시아의 건강음식에 대한 인식 연구)

  • Min, Kye-Hong
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.521-529
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to research healthy food behavior and food recognition for each Asian country after subjects had visited Asian restaurants. The subjects of the study were university students from Griffith university and Queensland university, Australia. The survey was conducted from June 1 to 28, 2010. The summary of the analysis is as follows. Firstly, for dietary behavior related to healthy food, 'average' was the most common answer at 41.0% (102 respondents). Regarding the standard of selecting healthy food, 'if it is good for health' was the most common answer, regarding the reasons to like healthy food, 'because it is good for health', was the most common, and for information about healthy food, 'obtain from TV or media' was the most common. Regarding eating healthy food at home or dining out, most respondents answered 'once or twice a week', whereas regarding thinking of eating healthy food while dining out, 'average' was the most common answer. Secondly, the recognition of six Asian cuisines were ranked in the order of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indian, and Vietnamese. Representative well-being food by country, Bibimbap of Korea, Sushi of Japan, Shark's Fin of China, Tom Yum Kung of Thailand, Curry of India and Goi Cuon of Vietnam were selected. Thirdly, regarding recognition of well-being food, disease effect factor, health-oriented factor, nutrition factor and vegetarian diet factor were extracted. We found that disease effect factor and nutrition factor had positive (+) effects on visiting Asian restaurants due to recognition of well-being foods. Therefore, it is expected that more local people will eat at Asian restaurants if the public relations for Asian restaurants emphasizes harmony between well-being food and Asian food.

An Analysis of the Differences in Well-being Consumption Behavior to the Lifestyle (특급 호텔 종사원들의 라이프스타일에 따른 웰빙 소비 행동 차이 분석)

  • Kim, Youn-Min
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.293-307
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    • 2007
  • This article was to provide information enabling us to respond effectively to the well being market which has great potential of growth by studying well-being consumption behaviour according to the lifestyles of dining-out customers and to find out how their lifestyles have influence on well-being by investigating their patterns according to demographical characteristics of dining-out customers who play key role in consumption and will have great purchasing power in food service industry. First, factor analysis of variation of lifestyle, 6 factors are named conscious style, realistic style, self-regard style, health-focusing style, changeable style, and fashion-sensitive style. Second, factor analysis of well-being consumption behaviour, 5 factors over eigen 1 are selected and used in a research and they are named healthful food principle, physical health principle, mental health principle, confidence principle, and old-age planning principle. Analysis result reveals that there exists significant relationship between lifestyle and well-being consumption behaviour.

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The Effects of Psychological Well-being Awareness on Selection Attributes for Hangwa(Korean Traditional Snacks) and Customer Satisfaction (심리적 웰빙 인식이 한과류 선택 속성과 고객만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Soon-Hee;Cho, Yong-Bum
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.140-152
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    • 2011
  • As increased demand for well-being food caused more interest in hangwa, or Korean traditional sweets and cookies, this study attempted to analyze the effects of psychological well-being awareness on selection attributes for it and customer satisfaction based on the customers who buy hangwa. As a result of statistical analysis, psychological well-being awareness positively affects selection attributes for hangwa. It also bas a positive effect on customer satisfaction.

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Influence of Different Perspectives about Well-being Trend LOHAS on the Menu Selecting Behavior of Diners-out (웰빙 트렌드 로하스(LOHAS)에 관한 외식 소비자의 인식 차이가 메뉴 선택 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Woo-Je
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.307-323
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    • 2009
  • This study aims to redefine people's attitudes about well-being trend LOHAS(Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability) by a systematic research on diners' perspectives about LOHAS and menu-selecting behavior since well-being trend has been a main interest of the media and the food service industry. Also, this study has focused on understanding customers' menu-selecting behavior through a customer interest survey and on customers' interests and verifying factors for healthy food inclination and satisfaction level to give basic information and marketing suggestions for healthful menu. SPSS 12.0 was used for the data analysis, and $x^$-test was carried to make clear the different perspectives about well-being trend LOHAS according to the general characteristics of those polled. Factor analysis was done to menu-selecting behavior. Differences between sampling menu-selecting factors and general characteristics(t-test & ANOVA) were inspected and multiple regression analysis between health inclination and satisfaction level was also conducted. According to the survey, customers' well-being menu selecting behavior showed highly in married women, relatively older people, those with higher general income and higher education. Regression analysis showed that menu-selecting behavior influenced customers' inclination toward health and satisfaction level. Therefore, the food service industry should target those groups and improve its promotional communication strategy with proper menu development and an improved concept.

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An Exploration of Well-being-oriented Consumers' Consciousness toward Sustainability : A Qualitative Research (웰빙 소비자의 지속가능성의식에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.521-527
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    • 2007
  • Using a qualitative method, this paper described briefly the well-being-oriented consumers consciousness toward sustainability concept. The paper identified the major obstacles facing well-being society as evidenced by consumers own experiences for consuming products which are meet the necessity for environmental preservation. Over seventy percent of respondents who had a experience consuming the sustainable products said that they consumed it for themselves and their family's health of all things. Beside their interests about health, they made mention of the safety of sustainable products, high quality of sustainable products, to preserve our environment, confidence in sustainable products, encouragement from others, and curiosity for sustainable products. The respondents who did not consume the sustainable products argued that high price of sustainable products, genuineness of sustainable products, lack of information about sustainable products, unconcern about sustainable products, and difficulty to access to sustainable products were not allowed them from consuming the sustainable products.

A Study on the Effect of the Well-being Awareness on the Satisfaction of University Dormitory Foodservice (웰빙의식이 대학 기숙사 급식 만족도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.161-170
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to research the perception and concern of university students with regard to well-being, and how these affected their assessment and satisfaction of university dormitory foodservice. Therefore, a survey was administered to 328 college students that use a dormitory foodservice. The results of the survey are as follows: First, the more positive the self-centered and society-centered values in relation to well-being, the greater both the concern and will to practice well-being through the eating well-being foods. Second, the attitude toward well-being food was positively correlated with the taste, amount, temperature, appearance and shape of dishes. Third, unlike the will to practice well-being through the eating well-being foods, the greater the concern about foods of well-being, the more positive was the effect on the general satisfaction with the foodservice. The greater the satisfaction with the attributes of a foodservice had a substantial influence on the general satisfaction with the foods. That is to say, the taste and type of dishes played a key role in the general satisfaction with the foods. Fourth, the concern in relation to foods of well-being had no measurable influence on the decisions with regards to the satisfaction of a foodservice or on the intention to reuse that foodservice. In addition, in relation to the degree of satisfaction with the attributes and use of a foodservice, the taste, type, appearance and shape of dishes had an important impact on the decisions to use and reuse a foodservice. Fifth, the general satisfaction with the meals served by a foodservice operation had a measurable influence on the satisfaction with, and intention to reuse that foodservice.