Snacking and diet quality are associated with the coping strategies used by a socioeconomically diverse urban cohort of African American and White adults

摘要

BackgroundStress affects health-related quality of life through several pathways including physiological processes and health behaviors. There is always a relationship between stress, the stimulus, and coping, the response. The relationship of snacking and snackers’ diet quality, to stress-coping is a topic overlooked in research.