Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among the adaptation
difficulties they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their well-
being. Existing studies related to dietary acculturation point to gender differences, mostly on
objective health impacts. Using the information processing approach, this study aims to
examine the subjective perception of dietary acculturation difficulties, with a focus on the
influence of social connectedness. Using the Bayesian inference approach with the …

Acculturative stress can be a big problem for international students. Among all the difficulties
they may face, adjusting to new foods in a new environment is crucial to their well-being.
Research related to food acculturation is limited but also hints at gender differences. Using
the Bayesian analysis approach with the Hamiltonian MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo)
technique on a sample of 268 students from a Japanese international university, we found
that female students are more likely to have perceived difficulties in the process of adjusting …