scholarly journals Food choice motives, attitude towards and intention to adopt personalised nutrition

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 2606-2616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Rankin ◽  
Brendan P Bunting ◽  
Rui Poínhos ◽  
Ivo A van der Lans ◽  
Arnout RH Fischer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Ethical Concern ◽  
Personalised Nutrition ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Food Choice Motives ◽  
Representative Samples

AbstractObjectiveThe present study explored associations between food choice motives, attitudes towards and intention to adopt personalised nutrition, to inform communication strategies based on consumer priorities and concerns.Design/SettingA survey was administered online which included the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) and items assessing attitudes towards and intention to adopt personalised nutrition.SubjectsNationally representative samples were recruited in nine EU countries (n 9381).ResultsStructural equation modelling indicated that the food choice motives ‘weight control’, ‘mood’, ‘health’ and ‘ethical concern’ had a positive association and ‘price’ had a negative association with attitude towards, and intention to adopt, personalised nutrition. ‘Health’ was positively associated and ‘familiarity’ negatively associated with attitude towards personalised nutrition. The effects of ‘weight control’, ‘ethical concern’, ‘mood’ and ‘price’ on intention to adopt personalised nutrition were partially mediated by attitude. The effects of ‘health’ and ‘familiarity’ were fully mediated by attitude. ‘Sensory appeal’ was negatively and directly associated with intention to adopt personalised nutrition.ConclusionsPersonalised nutrition providers may benefit from taking into consideration the importance of underlying determinants of food choice in potential users, particularly weight control, mood and price, when promoting services and in tailoring communications that are motivationally relevant.

scholarly journals Are the Motives for Food Choices Different in Orthorexia Nervosa and Healthy Orthorexia?

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Depa ◽  
Juan Barrada ◽  
María Roncero
Keyword(s):  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Orthorexia Nervosa ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
Food Choice Motives ◽  
Maladaptive Eating

Recent research points to the bidimensional nature of orthorexia, with one dimension related to interest in healthy eating (healthy orthorexia) and another dimension related to a pathological preoccupation with eating healthily (orthorexia nervosa). Research was needed to provide further support for this differentiation. We examined the food-choice motives related to both aspects of orthorexia. Participants were 460 students from a Spanish university who completed the Teruel Orthorexia Scale and the Food Choice Questionnaire. By means of structural equation modeling, we analyzed the relationship between orthorexia, food-choice motives, gender, body mass index, and age. The motives predicting food choices in orthorexia nervosa and healthy orthorexia were quite different. In the case of orthorexia nervosa, the main motive was weight control, with sensorial appeal and affect regulation also showing significant associations. For healthy orthorexia, the main motive was health content, with sensorial appeal and price also showing significant associations. This supports the hypothesis that orthorexia nervosa is associated with maladaptive eating behavior motived more by weight control than by health concerns.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Food Choice Motives before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study of 1232 Adults from Croatia

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 3165
Author(s):  
Tamara Sorić ◽  
Ivona Brodić ◽  
Elly Mertens ◽  
Diana Sagastume ◽  
Ivan Dolanc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Ethical Concern ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Food Choice Motives

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic brought changes to almost every segment of our lives, including dietary habits. We present one among several studies, and the first on the Croatian population, aiming at investigating changes of food choice motives before and during the pandemic. The study was performed in June 2021 as an online-based survey, using a 36-item Food Choice Questionnaire applied for both the periods before and during the pandemic. The final sample consisted of 1232 adults living in Croatia. Sensory appeal was ranked as the number one most important food choice motive before, whereas health was ranked as the number one most important food choice motive during the pandemic. Ethical concern was reported as the least important food choice motive both before and during the pandemic. In women, natural content (p = 0.002), health, convenience, price, weight control, familiarity, and ethical concern (all p < 0.001) became more important during the pandemic, while price (p = 0.009), weight control, familiarity, and ethical concern (all p < 0.001) became more relevant for men. All together, these can be considered favorable changes toward optimal diets and may result in beneficial influences on health and lifestyle. Education strategies and efficiently tackling misinformation are prerequisites for informed food choice, which will ensure long-lasting positive effects of such changes.

To What Extent Is Trust a Prerequisite for Charitable Giving? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110032
Author(s):  
Cassandra M. Chapman ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey ◽  
Nicole Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Representative Samples

Trust is assumed to be important for charitable giving. However, disparate associations have been found, and recent theoretical approaches emphasize motives for giving that do not rely on trust. To resolve this tension, we conducted a systematic review of evidence generated between 1988 and 2020. A meta-analysis of 69 effect sizes from 42 studies sampling 81,604 people in 31 countries confirmed a positive association between trust and giving across diverse measures, r = .22. Meta-regressions showed that organizational ( r = .35) and sectoral trust ( r = .27) were more strongly associated with giving than were generalized ( r = .11) or institutional trust ( r = .14). The relationship was also stronger in non-western (vs Western) countries and in nonrepresentative (vs nationally representative) samples. All evidence was correlational, and few studies measured actual behavior. We discuss implications for theories of trust and for fundraising practice, and highlight critical gaps in evidence.

scholarly journals Young Children’s Eating in the Absence of Hunger: Links With Child Inhibitory Control, Child BMI, and Maternal Controlling Feeding Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaat Philippe ◽  
Claire Chabanet ◽  
Sylvie Issanchou ◽  
Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Control Food ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
Child Bmi

This study aimed to gain a better understanding of the associations between young children’s eating in the absence of hunger (EAH), inhibitory control, body mass index (BMI) and several maternal controlling feeding practices (food as reward, restriction for health, restriction for weight control). In addition, to more properly assess the relationship between children’s and maternal variables, the link between EAH and restriction was explored separately in two directionalities: “child to parent” or “parent to child.” To do this, mothers of 621 children aged 2.00–6.97years (51% boys, M=4.11years, SD=1.34) filled in a questionnaire with items from validated questionnaires. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data. The results showed, whatever the directionality considered, a positive association between children’s eating in the absence of hunger and their BMI z-scores. Restriction for health and restriction for weight control were differently linked to EAH and to children’s BMI z-scores. Namely, low child inhibitory control, food as reward and restriction for health were identified as risk factors for EAH. Restriction for weight control was not linked to EAH, but was predicted by child BMI z-scores. Interventions aiming to improve children’s abilities to self-regulate food intake could consider training children’s general self-regulation, their self-regulation of intake, and/or promoting adaptive parental feeding practices.

scholarly journals Relationship between Psychosocial Impairment, Food Choice Motives, and Orthorexic Behaviors among Polish Adults

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Plichta ◽  
Marzena Jezewska-Zychowicz ◽  
Aleksandra Małachowska
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychosocial Impairment ◽  
Clinical Impairment ◽  
Body Weight Control ◽  
Food Motives ◽  
Food Choice Motives

Orthorexic behaviors correlate not only with health motives when choosing food but may also coexist with psychosocial impairment. The aim of this study was to assess the motives of food choice and psychosocial impairment among adults with orthorexic behaviors through the use of ORTO-15 and ORTO-7. The data for the study were collected from a sample of 1007 Polish adults through a cross-sectional quantitative survey conducted in 2019. The respondents were asked to complete the ORTO-15 questionnaire, the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ), and the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA). Orthorexic behaviors were measured using both the 15-item and the shorter 7-item version of the ORTO questionnaire. To determine the factors coexisting with the orthorexic behaviors, linear regression models were developed. The scores of both ORTO-15 and ORTO-7 correlated positively with the global CIA scores and the scores of personal, cognitive, and social impairments, but compared to the ORTO-7 scores, the ORTO-15 scores showed weaker correlations with the global CIA score and individual CIA scales. Orthorexic behaviors measured with ORTO-15 correlated positively with such food choice motives as health, natural content, and weight control; whereas orthorexic behaviors measured with ORTO-7 showed positive bivariate correlations only with two food choice motives: health and weight control. In regression models, sensory appeal, age, and education lower than secondary were associated inversely with orthorexic behaviors measured by both the ORTO-15 and the ORTO-7. In conclusion, the obtained results confirm that orthorexic behaviors are associated with a higher score regarding health motivation and cause an increase in psychosocial impairment. In addition, orthorexic behaviors are associated with greater importance of body weight control, which confirms the relationship between orthorexic behaviors and other eating disorders (ED), such as anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). However, similar motives for food choice displayed by the groups with higher scores of the ORTO-15 and the ORTO-7 and strong correlation between results obtained from both tools confirmed the similarity between these two questionnaires, thus revealing the weak psychometric properties also of the shorter seven-item version of the ORTO. Future studies on food motives, psychosocial impairment, and orthorexic behaviors should consider using other tools for measuring orthorexic behaviors.

scholarly journals Political repression motivates antigovernment violence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrikas Bartusevicius ◽  
Florian van Leeuwen ◽  
Michael Bang Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Representative Samples

Two thirds of the world’s population faces severe political repression; yet how repression affects human behavior remains poorly understood. We examined whether repression deters citizens from engaging in antigovernment violence (its intended goal), or in fact motivates it. Analyses of 101 nationally representative samples from three continents (N = 139,266) revealed a positive association between perceived levels of repression and intentions to engage in antigovernment violence. Additional analyses of fine-grained data from three countries characterized by widespread repression and antigovernment violence (N = 2,960) identified a positive association between personal experience with repression and intentions to engage in violence. Randomized experiments revealed that memories about repression also motivate participation in violence. These results suggest that political repression, aside from being normatively abhorrent, promotes political violence.

scholarly journals Socio-economic disparities in the consumption of vegetables, fruit and energy-dense foods: the role of motive priorities

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 873-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Konttinen ◽  
Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva ◽  
Karri Silventoinen ◽  
Satu Männistö ◽  
Ari Haukkala
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Food Choice Motives ◽  
Energy Dense Food

AbstractObjectiveA low socio-economic status (SES) is related to less healthy dietary habits, but the reasons for this remain unclear. We examined whether the absolute or relative importance of various food choice motives contributed to SES disparities in vegetable/fruit and energy-dense food intake.DesignWe analysed cross-sectional data from the FINRISK Study 2007 by means of structural equation modelling and used a shortened version of the Food Choice Questionnaire to assess the absolute importance of health, pleasure, convenience, price, familiarity and ethicality motives. We calculated the relative importance of each motive by dividing the participant's rating of it by his/her mean score on all motives. Dietary intake was measured with an FFQ.SettingA population-based survey in Finland.SubjectsMen (n 1691) and women (n 2059) aged 25–64 years.ResultsHigher education and income were related to a greater vegetable/fruit intake (β = 0·12, P < 0·001), while education was associated negatively with the consumption of energy-dense foods (β = −0·09, P < 0·001). Socio-economically disadvantaged individuals considered price and/or familiarity more important in their food choices in both absolute and relative terms. A higher income was related to a greater relative importance of health considerations. Relative motives were more strongly associated with vegetable/fruit and energy-dense food consumption than absolute motives and the relative importance of price, familiarity and health partly mediated the effects of the SES indicators on the consumption of these food items.ConclusionsIndividual priorities in food choice motives, rather than the absolute importance of single motives, play a role in producing SES disparities in diet.

scholarly journals A Humanities-Based Explanation for the Effects of Emotional Eating and Perceived Stress on Food Choice Motives during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Shen ◽  
Lucy M. Long ◽  
Chia-Hao Shih ◽  
Mary-Jon Ludy
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ritual Studies ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Food Choice Motives

Perceived stress affects emotional eating and food choices. However, the extent to which stress associates with food choice motives is not completely understood. This study assessed whether emotional eating mediates the associations between perceived stress levels and food choice motives (i.e., health, mood, convenience, natural content, price, sensory appeal, familiarities, weight control, and ethical concerns) during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic. A total of 800 respondents were surveyed in the United States in June 2020. Their perceived stress, emotional eating, and food choice motives were assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, and Food Choice Questionnaire, respectively. Moderate to high levels of perceived stress were experienced by the majority (73.6%) of respondents. Perceived stress was significantly correlated with emotional eating (r = 0.26) as well as five out of nine food choice motives: mood (r = 0.32), convenience (r = 0.28), natural content (r = −0.14), price (r = 0.27), and familiarity (r = 0.15). Emotional eating was significantly correlated with four out of nine food choice motives: mood (r = 0.27), convenience (r = 0.23), price (r = 0.16), and familiarity (r = 0.16). The mediation analyses showed that emotional eating mediates the associations between perceived stress and five food choices motives: mood, convenience, sensory appeal, price, and familiarity. Findings were interpreted using theories and concepts from the humanities, specifically, folklore studies, ritual studies, and symbolic anthropology.

scholarly journals Trajectories of Food Choice Motives and Weight Status of Malaysian Youths during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 3752
Author(s):  
Seok Tyug Tan ◽  
Chin Xuan Tan ◽  
Seok Shin Tan
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Multinomial Regression Model ◽  
Food Choice Motives

Stay-at-home orders have abruptly altered food purchasing behaviour, dietary habits, and food choice motives. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the trajectory of food choice motives and their associations with the weight status of Malaysian youths in the time of COVID-19. Socio-demographic information and anthropometric measurements were self-reported by the respondents, while the food choice motives were assessed using a validated 38-item food choice questionnaire (FCQ). Of the 1013 Malaysian youths, 48.6% gained weight due to the confinement, with an average weight gain of 3.90 ± 2.92 kg. On the other hand, 47.0% to 73.0% of the youths changed their food choice motives in the time of COVID-19. Of the 10 motives, convenience (48.5%) had the largest percentage increase, followed by weight control (47.0%) and health (45.3%). Moreover, the mean scores of health (t = −3.324, p = 0.001), convenience (t = −5.869, p < 0.001), weight control (t = −7.532, p < 0.001), natural content (t = −5.957, p < 0.001), ethical concern (t = −4.419, p < 0.001) and price (t = −3.737, p < 0.001) were significantly higher during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic. Findings from the multinomial regression model revealed that youths highly concerned for weight control were more likely to be in the weight loss category (Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.633, Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.230–2.168, p = 0.001). Conversely, those who gained weight due to the pandemic confinement highly valued natural content in foods (AOR = 0.653, CI = 0.481–0.886, p = 0.006) when making their food choices in this unprecedented pandemic. In conclusion, Malaysian youths made healthier food choices to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 infection.

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