Restaurant atmosphere, marketing, and menu offerings play a role on whether parents choose healthy meals for their kids at restaurants.

Promoting Positive Parental Influence on Healthy Restaurant Meals for Children

We match our behavior to others if we’re close in standard to them. People can be low or high in this tendency. 

Social Comparison Theory 

Parents may hold different degrees of social comparison orientation and implicit theories of self, affecting how open they are to buying healthy meals for their kids.

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Health psychology research studies the psychological component of making lifestyle changes, including what motivates a person to make them. Some lifestyle changes of particular interest — and their applied sciences — to the field of health psychology are: 


-Reducing Stress

-Motivation to exercise

-Nutrition/diet changes

-Smoking Cessation

-Sport(s) Psychology

-Positive Psychology


Lifestyle Changes of Interest in Health Psychology

Hogreve, J., Matta, S., Hettich, A. S., & Reczek, R. W. (2021). How do social norms influence parents’ food choices for their children? The role of social comparison and implicit self-theories. Journal of Retailing, 97(2), 173–190. https://doi-org.proxy.wichita.edu/10.1016/j.jretai.2020.05.002

How do social norms influence parents’ food choices for their children? The role of social comparison and implicit self-theories

- Feelings of Self-efficacy 
- Motivation
- Add other factors (and references) as more studies are added 

Factors Affecting Ability to Stop Smoking

Positive psychology is a field of research that was formally established in 1998 when Martin Seligman, then president of the American Psychological Association, called for a new focus on building human strength and psychological well-being. Often described as the 'science of happiness,' this area of study seeks to identify and promote the qualities that contribute to a more fulfilled life. It represents a significant shift from traditional psychology's emphasis on pathology, faults, and problems, instead concentrating on people's strengths and the factors that enable individuals to lead happy and contented lives.

Positive Psychology

Parental Influence on Healthy Restaurant Meals for Children

A science that combines kinesiology, physiology, and psychology to research how mental and physical processes affect athletic performance and vice versa

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