Abstract This paper reports the estimation of an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM), examining how meal preparation focus – measured by taste, context, and thrift–affect actor’s and partner’s satisfaction with food-related life (SWFRL) in cohabiting couples. Questionnaires were administered to 187 different-sex couples in Denmark. Both members of the couple reported their degree of agreement with a set of statements regarding meal production focus and the SWFRL scale. Using the APIM and structural equation modeling, we found that the woman’s SWFRL was positively associated with her own focus on taste in meal production (actor effect), as wells as by her partner’s focus on taste (partner effect). Women’s SWFRL was also positively associated with their own focus on physical context in meal production, and negatively by their partner’s focus on physical context. The man’s SWFRL only was positively associated with his own focus on physical context (actor effect) and by his partner’s focus on thrift in meal production (partner effect). These results suggest that meal-preparation focus relationships between members of a couple, through by both actor and partner effects, can effectively contribute to increase both their satisfaction with food-related life, and their well-being.

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演员-伴侣膳食生产对同居夫妇食物相关生活满意度的影响

摘要 本文报告了演员-伴侣相互依赖模型 (APIM) 的估计，研究了准备食物的重点——通过口味、背景和节俭衡量——如何影响演员和伴侣对同居夫妇的食物相关生活 (SWFRL) 的满意度。对丹麦 187 对不同性别的夫妇进行了问卷调查。这对夫妇的两个成员都报告了他们对关于膳食生产重点和 SWFRL 量表的一系列声明的同意程度。使用 APIM 和结构方程模型，我们发现女性的 SWFRL 与她自己在膳食生产中对口味的关注（演员效应）以及她的伴侣对口味的关注（伴侣效应）呈正相关。女性的 SWFRL 也与她们自己在膳食生产中对物理环境的关注呈正相关，并且由于他们的伴侣对物理环境的关注而产生负面影响。该男子的 SWFRL 仅与他自己对身体环境的关注（演员效应）以及他的伴侣在膳食生产中对节俭的关注（伴侣效应）呈正相关。这些结果表明，夫妻成员之间的膳食准备重点关系，通过演员和伴侣的效应，可以有效地提高他们对与食物相关的生活的满意度和幸福感。