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The Impact of Smartphone Addiction on Emotion and Eating Pleasure:
Impact on Healthy Snack Choice
Nur Aida Zuliyana Binti Abd Rahman
Supervisor: Dr. Hj Wan Hafiz Bin Wan Zainal Shukri
Bachelor of Food Science (Food Service and Nutrition)
School of Food Science and Technology
Young consumers especially university or college students are particularly vulnerable to
the addictive nature of smart phone technology. This study is to investigate the smart
phone addiction and healthy snack choice outcomes of university’s students from
students’ emotion due to separation with smartphone during meal time. This study will
use most common format of data collection in qualitative research which is interviewing
and Visual data will also be collected. This qualitative study expected result is to reveal if
the emotion is strongly related with smart phone addictions and healthy food choice. The
study suggests that the use of smartphone during meal time with friends and family is
inappropriate situations which affect the eating pleasure. Smart phone addiction is a
growing problem and this paper contributes to the understanding of the problem and
offers societal solutions for its resolution. This is the first empirical paper to investigate
and connection between an emotion and smart phone tendencies and resulting on healthy
snack choice.
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