Medeiros, Anna Cecília Queiroz dePires, Vanessa Rosa2022-12-222022-12-222022-12-14PIRES, Vanessa Rosa. Dietas vegetarianas e onívoras: um estudo sobre motivação nas escolhas e comportamento alimentar de indivíduos brasileiros. 2022. 18 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Nutrição) - Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, 2022.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/50474The present study aims to trace the behavioral and motivational profile in the food choices of Brazilian vegetarians and verify how they differ from omnivores. Thus, it is a quantitative, cross-sectional survey, carried out online so that participants were invited to answer the questionnaires: Identification, Ortho-15, The Three Factor Eating Questionnaire - R21 (TFEQ-R21) and the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ). The collected data were statistically analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The sample consisted of 376 adult individuals, 75 omnivores, 150 vegetarians and 151 vegans with a mean age of 31 (sd = ± 9.3) years. The findings indicated that vegetarians and vegans are more motivated by ethical issues while omnivorous individuals are more motivated by familiarity. In addition, those who followed omnivorous diets had a lower risk in the evaluation of orthorexia than individuals who followed vegetarian and vegan diets. With regard to the dimensions of cognitive restriction, emotional eating and uncontrolled eating, no differences were identified between the groups. In short, identifying motivations helps to better understand different dietary patterns. Furthermore, with the exception of orthorexia nervosa, it appears that vegetarian diets are not predictors of disordered eating behaviors. That said, this study provides useful information in the nutritional monitoring of vegetarians and vegans.Attribution 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/vegetarianismoveganismocomportamento alimentaralimentação desordenadaescolhas alimentaresbachelorThesis