scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Food Addiction in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (06) ◽  
pp. 18154-18169
Author(s):  
Ankan Das ◽  
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N Bharti ◽  
S Malik ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
Palatable Food ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Yale Food Addiction Scale ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Regular Consumption ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Long Term Impact

Food addiction (FA) has a long-term impact on the health of individuals. This study analyses the changes in FA and related behaviour in India in the wake of lockdown which started on 25th March 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This paper provides insight into the food consumption behavior of various segments of the population during this lockdown. It offers some new insights in this regard by establishing the relationship between a temporary pause in the consumption of palatable food and FA. This study was conducted between March and May 2020 in two stages. First, a quantitative study used the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) to identify food addicts from a sample of 150 respondents. In the second stage, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with the food addicts; the responses were recorded, transcribed, and analysed to ascertain the changes in their overall consumption and addiction behavior towards palatable foods. This was done by conducting a thematic analysis with the help of the NVivo software where various tools like word cloud and cluster analysis were used. This study found that COVID-19 restrictions had significantly brought down the addiction to palatable food in India as the regular consumption chain had got broken during the lockdown. The consumption of palatable food is expected to remain low for a brief period after the lockdown due to hygiene issues like improper or lack of sanitization and cleanliness. However, in the long-run, the consumption of palatable food is expected to rise in India owing to its growing population, modernisation, increasing disposable income and changes in customer preferences. These findings have significant implications for the food, packaging and health industries as the changes in customer behavior will certainly impact them, and they need to duly change their strategy to adapt to the changes promptly.

scholarly journals Sector Volatility Spillover and Economic Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from China’s Stock Market

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1411
Author(s):  
Xiaqing Su ◽  
Zhe Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Volatility Spillover ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Transmission Structure ◽  
Long Term Impact

Following generalized variance decomposition, we identify the transmission structure of financial shock among ten sectors in China. Then, we examine whether economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects it through GARCH-MIDAS regression. We find that consumer discretionary, industrials, and materials sectors are systemically important industries during the sample period. Further research of dynamic analysis shows that each sector acts in a time-varying role in this structure. The results of the GARCH-MIDAS regression indicate that none of the selected EPU indexes has a significant long-term impact on the total volatility spillover of the inter-sector stock market in China. However, the EPUs do affect some sectors’ spillover indexes in the long run, and they are significantly heterogeneous. This paper can provide regulatory suggestions for policymakers and reasonable asset allocation and risk avoidance methods for investors.

Psychometric properties of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in overweight and obese patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Innamorati ◽  
Claudio Imperatori ◽  
Gian Mauro Manzoni ◽  
Dorian A. Lamis ◽  
Gianluca Castelnuovo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
Obese Patients ◽  
Yale Food Addiction Scale

Validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 Among a Bariatric Surgery Population

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. S159
Author(s):  
Shannon M. Clark ◽  
Kellie M Martens ◽  
Christine ES Mason ◽  
Aaron Hamann ◽  
Lisa R Miller-Matero
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
Yale Food Addiction Scale

scholarly journals Is Customer Satisfaction Driving Revenue A Longitudinal Analysis With Evidence From The Banking Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Winkler ◽  
Markus S. Schwaiger
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Retail Banking ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Longitudinal Dataset

The connection between customer satisfaction and the financial performance of companies has been under academic scrutiny for quite some time. Evidence regarding the long term impact of customer satisfaction is however relatively scarce. Furthermore, research has so far often neglected potential industry idiosyncrasies in estimating the consequences of changes in customer satisfaction. We provide an insight into the overall long run impact of customer satisfaction on operating revenues based on a longitudinal dataset for the Austrian retail banking industry. Our results corroborate the intuition of a positive long run effect of satisfaction on revenues. We can show, that a time lag of 1,5 years has to elapse for satisfaction to have a positive impact on sales.

scholarly journals Translation of the Chinese version of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and its validation among college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Tong Tong ◽  
Ye Gao ◽  
Chunguang Liang ◽  
Haitao Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Food Addiction ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Yale Food Addiction Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Abstract Background Obesity prevalence has substantially increased in China over the past decade. In China, over 1 in 7 individuals meet the criteria for overall obesity, and 1 in 3 meet the criteria for abdominal obesity, obesity has become a significant problem. Studies have shown that food addiction and obesity are inextricably linked. The modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) is a brief measurement for assessing food addiction. This study aimed to explore the structure of the Chinese version of the mYFAS 2.0 and assess the occurrence of food addiction in a sample of college students in Northeast China. Methods A cross-sectional design was conducted in a sample of 1099 undergraduate students in Northeast China. Participants completed the sociodemographic questionnaire, the Chinese version of the mYFAS 2.0, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-8), and the Self-Esteem Scale (SES) to test the hypothesis. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed to examine the underlying factor structure of the mYFAS 2.0. Two weeks later, 62 students who participated in the first test were recruited to evaluate the test–retest reliability. Results The Chinese version of the mYFAS 2.0 demonstrated adequate internal consistency, good test–retest reliability and satisfactory construct validity. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis found that the Chinese version of the mYFAS 2.0 demonstrated a good fit to the two-factor solution identified by the exploratory factor analysis and showed superior fit indices compared to the one-factor model. The prevalence of food addiction in our sample was found to be in line with rates observed in other Asian and Western samples. The mYFAS 2.0 symptom count scores were correlated with BMI, the idea of dieting to lose weight, the desire to overeat, low self-esteem, and impulsivity. Conclusion The results indicate that the Chinese version of the mYFAS 2.0 has good reliability and validity, and that it can be considered a tool to evaluate the addictive eating behaviours of undergraduate students.

scholarly journals Adaptation and validation of the Hungarian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éva Erzsébet Magyar ◽  
Dalma Tényi ◽  
Ashley Gearhardt ◽  
Sára Jeges ◽  
Gallusz Abaligeti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Addiction ◽  
Yale Food Addiction Scale ◽  
Hungarian Version
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