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dc.contributor.authorAlm, Siril
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Svein Ottar
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-10T13:07:46Z
dc.date.available2017-01-10T13:07:46Z
dc.date.issued2016-07-27
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the coping strategies that families apply when under time pressure and stress (time stress), and how such strategies affect food consumption at dinnertime. The data were based on photo interviewing methodology with a sample of 12 Norwegian children (ages seven and eight) and their parents. In this case, the children were asked to take photographs during their dinners at home and while shopping for groceries with their parents. The findings show that the most dominant explanation for time stress was the children’s participation in sport activities. In this regard, the families applied several coping strategies, such as skipping dinner and eating snacks instead, consuming convenience food, avoiding preference conflicts, planning for healthy dinners, involving children and grandparents in food preparation, and practising compensatory health beliefs and behaviours. This might be the first study that identifies parents’ use of compensatory health beliefs to justify children’s diets. More specifically, the parents stated that the children’s high activity levels could compensate for unhealthy food consumption. The strategies that were applied had varying influences on the families’ food consumption, depending on the parents’ confidence in cooking and meal-planning skills. It was found that parents with high confidence and skills were more likely to make healthy cooking a priority. Consequently, they served more healthy dishes at dinnertime, compared with other parents. Unlike previous studies, the findings indicate that children’s active lifestyles might not be directly related to healthy diets.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is the accepted manuscript version. Published version at <a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-016-9329-5">http://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-016-9329-5</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Consumer Policy 2016:1-19en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1374070
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10603-016-9329-5
dc.identifier.issn0168-7034
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10141
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNofima AS: 21223en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectSportsen_US
dc.subjectQualitative researchen_US
dc.subjectPhotographen_US
dc.subjectCompensatory Health Beliefsen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialt arbeid: 360en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social work: 360en_US
dc.titleCoping with Time Pressure and Stress: Consequences for Families’ Food Consumptionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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