A Gender Study of Food Stress and Implications for International Students Acculturation

WORLD Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.3390/world4010006
Ruining Jin, Tam-Tri Le, Thu-Trang Vuong, Thi-Phuong Nguyen, Giang Hoang, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Quan-Hoang Vuong
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Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among the adaptation difficulties they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their well-being. Existing studies related to dietary acculturation point to gender differences, mostly on objective health impacts. Using the information processing approach, this study aims to examine the subjective perception of dietary acculturation difficulties, with a focus on the influence of social connectedness. Using the Bayesian inference approach with the Hamiltonian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique on a sample of 268 students from a Japanese international university, we found that female students are more likely to have perceived difficulties in the process of adjusting to new foods, but social connectedness lessens this effect. We also found no significant differences between domestic and international students regarding perceived difficulties of food adjustment in this study site, likely due to its highly multicultural environment. We suggest international universities provide better information about the food situations on campuses, especially for female students, and organize more cultural exchange events and food-related social activities to help students overcome barriers of food stress.
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食物压力的性别研究及其对国际学生文化适应的影响
异文化压力对国际学生来说是个大问题。在他们可能面临的适应困难中,在新环境中适应新食物对他们的健康至关重要。与饮食文化适应相关的现有研究指出了性别差异,主要是在客观健康影响方面。本研究采用信息加工的方法,研究饮食文化适应困难的主观认知,并重点研究社会联系的影响。使用贝叶斯推理方法和哈密顿马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)技术对来自日本一所国际大学的268名学生进行样本分析,我们发现女学生在适应新食物的过程中更容易感受到困难,但社会联系减少了这种影响。我们还发现,在这个研究地点,国内和国际学生对食物适应困难的感知没有显著差异,这可能是由于其高度多元文化的环境。我们建议国际大学更好地提供校园饮食情况的信息,特别是对女学生,并组织更多的文化交流活动和与饮食有关的社会活动,帮助学生克服饮食压力的障碍。
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