Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour
The ‘hostel mess food’ provides for both economy and health. Yet, a significant number of students miss their scheduled meals at the mess to eat outside food. This is a significant concern for mess managers, university authorities, and parents. Understanding the antecedents of the mess meal skipping...
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| description | The ‘hostel mess food’ provides for both economy and health. Yet, a significant number of students miss their scheduled meals at the mess to eat outside food. This is a significant concern for mess managers, university authorities, and parents. Understanding the antecedents of the mess meal skipping behaviour is crucial to design interventions to promote healthier eating habits and optimize mess utilization. This study investigates these antecedents using the theory of planned behaviour and employs the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique to analyse the data collected from Hostel Students of a prominent Pune (India) based Higher Education Institution. The study reveals that the attitude towards mess food negatively influences mess meal skipping behaviour. Subjective norms significantly impact mess food skipping behaviour and moderate the influence of Perceived Behavioural Control on meal skipping behaviour. For mess managers, it entails focusing on subjective norms-based interventions to influence the mess meals skipping behaviour. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5c921c1cab804fb1886eab9af9d24e1d2025-01-09T16:14:57ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth0267-38432164-45272025-12-0130110.1080/02673843.2025.2450409Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviourPravin Dange0Chanakya Kumar1Symbiosis Institute Management Studies, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, IndiaIndira School of Business Studies, PGDM,Indira Group of Institutes,Pune,IndiaThe ‘hostel mess food’ provides for both economy and health. Yet, a significant number of students miss their scheduled meals at the mess to eat outside food. This is a significant concern for mess managers, university authorities, and parents. Understanding the antecedents of the mess meal skipping behaviour is crucial to design interventions to promote healthier eating habits and optimize mess utilization. This study investigates these antecedents using the theory of planned behaviour and employs the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique to analyse the data collected from Hostel Students of a prominent Pune (India) based Higher Education Institution. The study reveals that the attitude towards mess food negatively influences mess meal skipping behaviour. Subjective norms significantly impact mess food skipping behaviour and moderate the influence of Perceived Behavioural Control on meal skipping behaviour. For mess managers, it entails focusing on subjective norms-based interventions to influence the mess meals skipping behaviour.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2025.2450409TPBhostel messfood choicesubjective normsstudents‘ food choicestructural equation model |
| spellingShingle | Pravin Dange Chanakya Kumar Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour International Journal of Adolescence and Youth TPB hostel mess food choice subjective norms students‘ food choice structural equation model |
| title | Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour |
| title_full | Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour |
| title_fullStr | Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour |
| title_full_unstemmed | Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour |
| title_short | Giving the hostel mess a miss: investigating students’ attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals, using the theory of planned behaviour |
| title_sort | giving the hostel mess a miss investigating students attitude and behaviour towards mess and skipping mess meals using the theory of planned behaviour |
| topic | TPB hostel mess food choice subjective norms students‘ food choice structural equation model |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2025.2450409 |
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