TY - JOUR
T1 - Study about Food Choice Determinants According to Six Types of Conditioning Motivations in a Sample of 11,960 Participants
AU - Guiné, Raquel P.F.
AU - Bartkiene, Elena
AU - Ucs, Viktória S.
AU - Tarcea, Monica
AU - Ljubičic´, Marija
AU - Ernelič-Bizjak, Maša C.
AU - Isoldi, Kathy
AU - El-Kenawy, Ayman
AU - Ferreira, Vanessa
AU - Straumite, Evita
AU - Korzeniowska, Małgorzata
AU - Vittadini, Elena
AU - Leal, Marcela
AU - Frez-Munõz, Lucia
AU - Papageorgiou, Maria
AU - Djekíc, Ilija
AU - Ferreira, Manuela
AU - Correia, Paula
AU - Cardoso, Ana Paula
AU - Duarte, Joaõ
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Many aspects linked to personal characteristics, society and culture constitute some of the motivators that drive food choice. The aim of this work was to determine in what extent the eating behaviors of individuals are shaped by six different types of determinants, namely: Health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, involving a non-probabilistic sample of 11,960 participants from 16 countries. The objective of this work was to validate the questionnaire, so as to make it suitable for application in different contexts and different countries. For that, six scales were considered for validation by confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modelling. The obtained results showed that the six individual scales evaluated presented good or very good fitting indices, with saturation in goodness-of-fit index in all cases. The values of chi-square ratio were 6.921 (for health), 0.987 (environment), 0.610 (emotions) and 0.000 in the remaining cases (convenience, society, marketing). Furthermore, the fit was perfect, with saturation for all indices, in three of the six models (convenience, society and marketing). The results of this wok allowed the validation of the six scales, and the assessing of different types of factors that can influence food choices and eating behaviors, namely in the categories: Health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials.Â
AB - Many aspects linked to personal characteristics, society and culture constitute some of the motivators that drive food choice. The aim of this work was to determine in what extent the eating behaviors of individuals are shaped by six different types of determinants, namely: Health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, involving a non-probabilistic sample of 11,960 participants from 16 countries. The objective of this work was to validate the questionnaire, so as to make it suitable for application in different contexts and different countries. For that, six scales were considered for validation by confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modelling. The obtained results showed that the six individual scales evaluated presented good or very good fitting indices, with saturation in goodness-of-fit index in all cases. The values of chi-square ratio were 6.921 (for health), 0.987 (environment), 0.610 (emotions) and 0.000 in the remaining cases (convenience, society, marketing). Furthermore, the fit was perfect, with saturation for all indices, in three of the six models (convenience, society and marketing). The results of this wok allowed the validation of the six scales, and the assessing of different types of factors that can influence food choices and eating behaviors, namely in the categories: Health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and commercials.Â
KW - Eating determinants
KW - Emotions
KW - Feeding behavior
KW - Healthy diet
KW - Instrument validation
KW - Socio-cultural environment
U2 - 10.3390/foods9070888
DO - 10.3390/foods9070888
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090665174
SN - 2304-8158
VL - 9
JO - Foods
JF - Foods
IS - 7
M1 - 888
ER -