title: Relationship between the domains of the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale, satisfaction with food-related life and happiness in university students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize types of university students based on satisfaction with life domains that affect eating habits, satisfaction with food-related life and subjective happiness.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire was applied to a nonrandom sample of 305 students of both genders in five universities in Chile. The questionnaire included the abbreviated Multidimensional Student's Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS), Satisfaction with Food-related Life Scale (SWFL) and the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS). Eating habits, frequency of food consumption in and outside the place of residence, approximate height and weight and sociodemographic variables were measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using factor analysis, the five-domain structure of the MSLSS was confirmed with 26 of the 30 items of the abbreviated version: Family, Friends, Self, Environment and University. Using cluster analysis four types of students were distinguished that differ significantly in the MSLSS global and domain scores, SWFL and SHS scores, gender, ownership of a food allowance card funded by the Chilean government, importance attributed to food for well-being and socioeconomic status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Higher levels of life satisfaction and happiness are associated with greater satisfaction with food-related life. Other major life domains that affect students' subjective well-being are Family, Friends, University and Self. Greater satisfaction in some domains may counterbalance the lower satisfaction in others.
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: Centro de Psicología Económica y del Consumo, Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Ligia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orellana
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Ingeniería Comercial, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Talca (Talca), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Germán
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lobos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Horacio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.affiliation: Centro de Psicología Económica y del Consumo, Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sepúlveda
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Administración, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile (Santiago), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Soledad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Etchebarne
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Agraria, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile (Santiago), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mora
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía y Administración, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas, Universidad Católica del Maule (Talca), Chile.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Adasme-Berríos
authors.affiliation: MAPP Centre for Research on Customer Relations in the Food Sector, Aarhus University (Aarhus), Denmark.. berta.schnettler@ufrontera.cl.
authors.forename: Klaus G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Grunert
mesh_terms: D002677:Chile; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult