Is Love Status An Influencing Factor for obesity Level?

DOI

10.2991/isss-17.2017.107How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Obesity, love status, multiple linear regression.

Abstract

Limited research has been conducted to investigate mental state associated with obesity level in China, where obesity has been increasing. This study investigated association of one kind of mental state, love status, with obesity level among Chinese college students. We used BMI (body mass index= weight/height2) to denote one's obesity level as the dependent variable, chose love status as the explanatory variable and chose some specific variables as control variables according to some literature. We collect we collected 177 valid questionnaire data from students in Southwestern University of Financial and Economics, China. We used multiple linear regression model to investigate association of love status with obesity level, and then adopted least squares estimation to fit the regression equation. The significance of each coefficient was tested by student's t test with a P < 0.1 indicating statistical significance. The significance of the whole regression equation was tested by homogeneity test of variance and goodness of fit test. Furthermore, the significance of multicollinearity level was tested by VIF (variance inflation factor). Heteroscedasticity was tested by white test. The results indicated that all tests above were passed. In conclusion, towards college students, love status has influence on obesity level. The students who are in passionately in love have lower obesity level than that of students who are single, which can be explained by neurobiology and the logic of people's thinking. However, some limitations existed in the study such as the lack of test of endogeneity.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2017)
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