Hangt het overslaan van ontbijt door Nederlandse middelbare scholieren samen met binge-drinken en roken.

Abstract

Abstract This thesis will research if breakfast skipping among Dutch adolescents, gets together with binge-drinking and cigarette smoking. It was hypothesized that adolescents who are binge-drinkers or smokers, will have a higher chance of also being a breakfast skipper. The socio-economic status of the student will be taken into the research. It was hypothesized that a low economic-status can be seen as a common risk factor for the three risk behaviors. The data of a Dutch Health Behavior in School-aged Children study is used. Self-report surveys were conducted by high school students. Only students with the age of twelve to sixteen were taken into this research (N = 5610). The results off a logistic regression suggest that there is a relationship between the three risk behaviors. When a student was classified as a binge drinker or a smoker, the chance of being a breakfast skipper was higher than when a student wasn’t classified as an binge-drinker or smoker. There was no support for the hypothesis that socio-economic status can be seen as an common risk factor. The results of a logistic regression did suggest that students with a low economic-status had an increased chance of being a breakfast skipper than those with a high economic status and a reduced chance of being a binge-drinker. The results off a multinomial logistic regression analysis show that there is no relationship between socio-economic status and smoking.