Arch Pharm Pract archivepp.com Arch Pharm Pract Archives of Pharmacy Practice 2320-5210 archivepp.com-1224 10.51847/AG623z9IS0 Original research The Relationship of Neophobia and Neophilia to the Life Events Among Young Adults Unal Nursemin 1 Atabey Müjde Koca 2 Şanlier Nevin 3 Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Psychology, Ankara Medipol University, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ankara Medipol University, Ankara, Turkey. Address for correspondence: Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan. E-mail: nurse_unal@hotmail.com 13 03 2025 16 1 1 7 Copyright: © 2026 Archives of Pharmacy Practice 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. A<sc>BSTRACT</sc>

Life events that the students experience during the university life can affect young individuals&#39; food preferences and food neophobia. This study aims to evaluate the relationship of neophobia and neophilia to life events among young adults. The research is descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational and was conducted with 408 university students studying at a private, non-profit university. Data were collected with a Personal Information Form, General Neophobia Scale (GNS), Food Neophobia Scale (FNS), and Life Events Inventory (LEI). The mean age of students was 20.8±1.85 years and 79.4% were female. The mean GNS score of female students and the mean LEI score of smokers were high (p

 Neophobia Food neophobia Life events Young adults