Eating behaviour of adolescents: Recent drift

The study aims to determine the impulsivity, decision-making and temperament among adolescents who use and are within the zone of online food delivery system and outside the zone. It also seeks to study the current eating behaviour among adolescents in relation to online food delivery system. A set of questionnaires which included personal data, interview schedule, Barratt Impulsivity Scale, Melbourne Decision-making Questionnaire and Rothbart Temperament Questionnaire were given to the samples which consisted of 50 online food consumers and 50 non-online food consumers of 15-20 years. The Student’s t-test is employed as a statistical analysis for the present study. The results revealed that there is no significant difference in the impulsivity of online and non-online consumers. On the other hand, hypervigilance, activation control, affiliation and attention are affected in online consumers compared to non-online consumers. Moreover, there is an increase in the frustration and perceptual sensitivity of adolescents in urban area than rural area. The present study reveals the need for enhancing healthy eating behaviour among adolescents as it affects their decisionmaking capacity and temperament. The study also implies the negative dimensions of online food consumption that leads to maladaptive decision-making and temperament styles among adolescents.