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Extending the Cognitive Mediation Model to Examine Personal Body Dissatisfaction: Media Attention, Information Processing and Healthy Diet Knowledge Acquisition
- 1 University of Florida
- 2 Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Experimental School
- 3 Beijing Normal University
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Abstract
Trapped in this fast-paced society, concerns about personal healthy conditions especially the outcome of unhealthy eating habits have been raised recently. As most of the youth embraced the digital media as a tool to be informed of updated healthy eating information, the study tried to explore whether or not their healthy eating literacy have been enhanced via their increasing attention to the relevant information based on the theory of the Cognitive Mediation Model (CMM). And how their increasing knowledge gain affected their attitudes to their body conditions. The method of path analysis were used to finish the survey, confirming the critically positive role of elaboration and engagement from the youth’’s attention to the youth’’s knowledge gain in terms of the healthy diet, and revealing that a higher level of knowledge gain corresponded with a lower satisfaction of their body conditions. These conclusions go a step further to link the cognitive factors change in the CMM to an affective factors change, extending the CMM to be a mediator for the subsequent research on healthy eating behaviors.
Keywords
cognitive mediation model, personal body dissatisfaction, media attention, information processing, healthy diet knowledge acquisition
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Liu,Z.;Luan,X.;Wang,J. (2023). Extending the Cognitive Mediation Model to Examine Personal Body Dissatisfaction: Media Attention, Information Processing and Healthy Diet Knowledge Acquisition. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,26,41-50.
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