The relationship between subjective well-being and food: a qualitative study based on children’s perspectives

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Figure 1. The actor’s system theory (Stoecklin, 2013).

The plain arrows symbolize a habilitating force and the dotted arrows a constraining force

Table I. Characteristics of the sample.

	Type of school	Location	Number of discussion groups	Age	Gender	Number of participants
School 1	State	Urban school	1	10–11 years	Mixed	8
School 2	State	Urban school	2	10–11 years 11–12 years	Mixed Mixed	8 8
School 3	State	Rural school	6	10–11 years 11–12 years 10–11 years 11–12 years 10–11 years 11–12 years	Female Male Female Male Mixed Mixed	6 6 6 6 8 8
School 4	State	Rural school	2	10–11 years 11–12 years	Mixed Mixed	8 8
School 5	Mixed funding	Urban school	4	10–11 years 11–12 years 10–11 years 11–12 years	Female Male Female Male	6 6 6 6
School 6	Mixed funding	Urban school	1	11–12 years	Mixed	8
Total			16			112

Table II. Topics and subtopics related to the sensations produced by food.

Topics	Eating foods they like	Eating foods they don’t like
Sub-topics	Feeling good Happiness Feel vitality Wanting to eat Feeling good in themselves Feeling guilty	Feeling physically ill Thinking of strategies for not eating Feeling bad Losing appetite and energy Being upset Enraged Being sad Feeling uncomfortable

Stoecklin, D. (2013). Theories of action in the field of child participation. In search of explicit frameworks. Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, 20(4), 443–457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568212466901

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