Pandemi COVID-19 yang terjadi membuat berbagai perubahan dalam kehidupan mahasiswi termasuk diantaranya adalah kondisi psikologis dan perilaku makan. Perilaku makan berdasarkan dengan kondisi psikologsi biasa disebut sebagai eating styles dan terbagi menjadi tiga, yaitu restrained eating, emotional eating, dan external eating. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti hubungan antara stres, penggunaan media, tingkat kebosanan, dan faktor lainnya dengan eating styles pada mahasiswi selama masa pandemi COVID-19. Dengan melibatkan 285 mahasiswi S1 Reguler Universitas Indonesia didapatkan bahwa stres dan kecenderungan gangguan perilaku makan berhubungan dengan restrained eating (p-value=0,018 dan 0,0005), emotional eating (p-value=0,002 dan 0,0005), dan external eating (p-value=0,0005 dan 0,004). Sedangkan durasi penggunaan media sosial dan tingkat kebosanan hanya berhubungan dengan emotional eating (p-value=0,001 dan 0,0005) dan external eating (p-value=0,009 dan 0,0005). Sedangkan durasi penggunaan media sosial dan tingkat kebosanan hanya berhubungan dengan emotional eating (p-value=0,001 dan 0,0005) dan external eating (p-value=0,009 dan 0,0005) tidak dengan restrained eating (p-value=0,480 dan 0,053). Berdasarkan rumpun keilmuan tidak ditemukan hubungan dengan ketiga eating styles namun ditemukan mahasiswa rumpun IPTEK memiliki rata-rata skor eating styles tertinggi dibandingkan rumpun keilmuan lainnya. Positif COVID-19 tidak berhubungan dengan ketiga eating styles sedangkan memiliki keluarga dengan riwayat positif COVID-19 berhubungan dengan skor restrained eating (p-value=0,009) yang lebih tinggi. Riwayat isolasi juga didapatkan berhubungan dengan restrained eating (p-value=0,004 5) tidak dengan emotional eating (p-value=0,289) dan external eating (p-value=0,133).
The COVID-19 pandemic has made various changes in the lives of female students, including psychological conditions and eating behavior. Eating behavior based on psychological conditions is commonly referred as “Eating Styles” that divided into three, namely restrained eating, emotional eating, and external eating. This study aims to examine the relationship between stress, media use, boredom, and other factors with eating styles in female students during the COVID-19 pandemic. By involving 285 female students from regular bachelor program of University of Indonesia, it was found that stress and eating disorder was associated with restrained eating (p-value=0,018 and 0,0005), emotional eating (p-value=0,002 and 0,0005), and external eating (p-value=0,0005 and 0,004). Meanwhile, the duration of using social media and the level of boredom were only related to emotional eating (p-value=0,001 and 0,0005) and external eating (p-value=0,009 and 0,0005), not to restrained eating (p-value=0,480 and 0,053). Based on scientific clusters, no relationship was found with both eating styles, but it was found that students from the science and technology cluster had the highest average of eating styles scores compared to other clusters. Positive COVID-19 was not associated with the both eating styles whereas having a family member that positive COVID-19 was associated with higher restrained eating (p-value=0,052). Isolation was also found related to restrained eating (p-value=0,004), not with emotional eating (p-value=0,289) and external eating (p-value=0,133).