Study on Nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Chinese School Football Players
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Tools
2.3. Survey Process
2.4. Statistics Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Confirmatory Factor Analysis
3.2. Structural Equation Model
4. Discussion
- (1)
- Sports nutrition knowledge can affect the attitude toward sports nutrition (H1).
- (2)
- Sports nutrition knowledge can affect dietary behavior (H2).
- (3)
- Sports nutrition knowledge can affect subjective norms (H3).
- (4)
- Sports nutrition knowledge can affect perceived behavioral control (H4).
- (5)
- Subjective norms can affect dietary behavior (H5).
- (6)
- Perceived behavioral control could affect dietary behavior (H6).
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Factor | Num |
---|---|
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | 5 |
Attitude | 4 |
Perceived behavioral control | 4 |
Subjective norms | 5 |
Dietary behavior | 5 |
Total | 23 |
Effective samples | 279 |
Factor | Manifest Variable | Coef. | Std. Error | CR | p | Standard Loading (Std. Estimate) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | K1 | 1.000 | - | - | - | 0.825 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | K2 | 0.915 | 0.062 | 14.858 | 0.000 | 0.789 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | K3 | 0.941 | 0.063 | 14.849 | 0.000 | 0.788 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | K4 | 0.927 | 0.064 | 14.531 | 0.000 | 0.776 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | K5 | 0.990 | 0.062 | 15.851 | 0.000 | 0.827 |
Attitude | A1 | 1.000 | - | - | - | 0.821 |
Attitude | A2 | 0.913 | 0.071 | 12.940 | 0.000 | 0.752 |
Attitude | A3 | 0.939 | 0.070 | 13.434 | 0.000 | 0.778 |
Attitude | A4 | 0.862 | 0.071 | 12.080 | 0.000 | 0.708 |
Perceived behavioral control | C1 | 1.000 | - | - | - | 0.733 |
Perceived behavioral control | C2 | 1.110 | 0.092 | 12.103 | 0.000 | 0.793 |
Perceived behavioral control | C3 | 1.060 | 0.092 | 11.522 | 0.000 | 0.750 |
Perceived behavioral control | C4 | 1.028 | 0.088 | 11.649 | 0.000 | 0.759 |
Subjective norms | S1 | 1.000 | - | - | - | 0.776 |
Subjective norms | S2 | 0.900 | 0.076 | 11.781 | 0.000 | 0.711 |
Subjective norms | S3 | 0.925 | 0.077 | 11.983 | 0.000 | 0.723 |
Subjective norms | S4 | 0.981 | 0.077 | 12.698 | 0.000 | 0.762 |
Subjective norms | S5 | 1.004 | 0.079 | 12.633 | 0.000 | 0.759 |
Dietary behavior | B1 | 1.000 | - | - | - | 0.732 |
Dietary behavior | B2 | 0.957 | 0.091 | 10.565 | 0.000 | 0.683 |
Dietary behavior | B3 | 0.954 | 0.088 | 10.850 | 0.000 | 0.702 |
Dietary behavior | B4 | 1.124 | 0.093 | 12.093 | 0.000 | 0.790 |
Dietary behavior | B5 | 0.915 | 0.086 | 10.628 | 0.000 | 0.687 |
Factor | AVE | CR |
---|---|---|
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | 0.642 | 0.900 |
Attitude | 0.586 | 0.850 |
Perceived behavioral control | 0.576 | 0.844 |
Subjective norms | 0.557 | 0.863 |
Dietary behavior | 0.518 | 0.843 |
Sports Nutrition Knowledge | Attitude | Perceived Behavioral Control | Subjective Norms | Dietary Behavior | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sports nutrition knowledge | 0.801 | ||||
Attitude | 0.320 | 0.766 | |||
Perceived behavioral control | 0.364 | 0.389 | 0.759 | ||
Subjective norms | 0.355 | 0.388 | 0.401 | 0.747 | |
Dietary behavior | 0.419 | 0.372 | 0.415 | 0.407 | 0.720 |
Index | X2 | df | p | X2/df | GFI | RMSEA | RMR | CFI | NFI | NNFI |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Judgment standard | - | - | >0.05 | <3 | >0.9 | <0.10 | <0.05 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 |
257.729 | 220 | 0.041 | 1.171 | 0.929 | 0.025 | 0.030 | 0.988 | 0.923 | 0.986 |
X | → | Y | SE | z (CR) | p | Regression Coefficients |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | Attitude | 0.062 | 5.908 | 0.000 | 0.401 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | Perceived behavioral control | 0.053 | 6.395 | 0.000 | 0.451 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | Subjective norms | 0.057 | 6.377 | 0.000 | 0.434 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | Dietary behavior | 0.059 | 2.858 | 0.004 | 0.236 |
Attitude | → | Dietary behavior | 0.054 | 2.742 | 0.006 | 0.187 |
Perceived behavioral control | → | Dietary behavior | 0.069 | 3.203 | 0.001 | 0.231 |
Subjective norms | → | Dietary behavior | 0.060 | 2.998 | 0.003 | 0.209 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | K2 | 0.062 | 14.903 | 0.000 | 0.790 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | K1 | - | - | - | 0.824 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | K5 | 0.063 | 15.739 | 0.000 | 0.823 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | K4 | 0.064 | 14.417 | 0.000 | 0.771 |
Sport Nutrition Knowledge | → | K3 | 0.063 | 14.809 | 0.000 | 0.787 |
Attitude | → | A4 | 0.073 | 11.964 | 0.000 | 0.710 |
Attitude | → | A3 | 0.072 | 13.170 | 0.000 | 0.776 |
Attitude | → | A2 | 0.072 | 12.847 | 0.000 | 0.758 |
Attitude | → | A1 | - | - | - | 0.816 |
Perceived behavioral control | → | C4 | 0.090 | 11.498 | 0.000 | 0.759 |
Perceived behavioral control | → | C3 | 0.094 | 11.337 | 0.000 | 0.747 |
Perceived behavioral control | → | C2 | 0.094 | 11.993 | 0.000 | 0.800 |
Perceived behavioral control | → | C1 | - | - | - | 0.728 |
Subjective norms | → | S5 | 0.079 | 12.630 | 0.000 | 0.757 |
Subjective norms | → | S4 | 0.076 | 12.652 | 0.000 | 0.758 |
Subjective norms | → | S3 | 0.076 | 11.965 | 0.000 | 0.720 |
Subjective norms | → | S2 | 0.076 | 11.832 | 0.000 | 0.713 |
Subjective norms | → | S1 | - | - | - | 0.782 |
Dietary behavior | → | B5 | 0.089 | 10.310 | 0.000 | 0.678 |
Dietary behavior | → | B4 | 0.096 | 11.719 | 0.000 | 0.783 |
Dietary behavior | → | B3 | 0.091 | 10.526 | 0.000 | 0.693 |
Dietary behavior | → | B2 | 0.093 | 10.250 | 0.000 | 0.674 |
Dietary behavior | → | B1 | - | - | - | 0.724 |
Index | X2 | df | p | X2/df | GFI | RMSEA | RMR | CFI | NFI | NNFI |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Judgment standard | - | - | >0.05 | <3 | >0.9 | <0.10 | <0.05 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 |
322.694 | 223 | 0.000 | 1.447 | 0.909 | 0.040 | 0.066 | 0.968 | 0.903 | 0.963 | |
Index | TLI | AGFI | IFI | PGFI | PNFI | SRMR | RMSEA 90%CI | |||
Judgment standard | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | <0.1 | ||||
0.963 | 0.887 | 0.968 | 0.734 | 0.796 | 0.086 | 0.030 ~ 0.049 |
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Chen, Y.; Sun, Y.; Liu, Z.; Hu, D. Study on Nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Chinese School Football Players. Children 2022, 9, 1910. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9121910
Chen Y, Sun Y, Liu Z, Hu D. Study on Nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Chinese School Football Players. Children. 2022; 9(12):1910. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9121910
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Yao, Yingshuang Sun, Zhiyun Liu, and Donglin Hu. 2022. "Study on Nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Chinese School Football Players" Children 9, no. 12: 1910. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9121910
APA StyleChen, Y., Sun, Y., Liu, Z., & Hu, D. (2022). Study on Nutritional Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior of Chinese School Football Players. Children, 9(12), 1910. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9121910