title: Dietary restraint and subjective well-being in university students in Chile.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize university students typologies according to chronic food restriction, satisfaction with life and food consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire was applied on a non-probability sample of 369 male and female students from five Chilean universities. The questionnaire included: Revised Restraint Scale (RRS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Satisfaction with Food-related Life (SWFL) and the Health-related Quality of Life Index. The survey included food and drink consumption habits, weight and approximate height and sociodemographic variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two factors in the RRS were detected by exploratory factor analysis: Preoccupation with Diet (PD) and Weight fluctuations (WF). A confirmatory factor analysis validated the bifactor structure of the RRS with an acceptable adjustment kindness. The cluster analysis allowed a distinction of four typologies with a significant variation in PD, WF, SWLS and SWFL scoring, number of days with mental health problems, frequency of alcoholic drinks consumption, restraint on the consumption of certain foods, drinks and spices, consumption frequency of fruit out of the main meals and types. Typologies did not differ on their body mass index.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both, students preoccupied with diet and those who are not, experience higher levels of satisfaction with life and with food. Lower levels of global life satisfaction and satisfaction with food are related with the fluctuations in weight.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Forestales. Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco. Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schnettler
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Forestales. Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco. Chile..
authors.forename: Horacio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.affiliation: Centro de Psicología Económica y del Consumo. Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco. Chile..
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sepúlveda
authors.affiliation: Centro de Psicología Económica y del Consumo. Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco. Chile..
authors.forename: Ligia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orellana
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administración. Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Universidad de Chile. Santiago. Chile..
authors.forename: Soledad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Etchebarne
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Ingeniería Comercial. Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Universidad de Talca. Talca. Chile..
authors.forename: Germán
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lobos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Agraria. Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas. Universidad de Chile. Santiago. Chile..
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mora
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología. Facultad de Educación. Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Universidad de La Frontera. Temuco. Chile..
authors.forename: Marianela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Denegri
authors.affiliation: MAPP Centre for Research on Customer Relations in the Food Sector. Aarhus University. Aarhus. Denmark..
authors.forename: Klaus G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Grunert
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult