The main aim of this study is determining which consumption motives and personal and social factors affect organic food buying decisions. Ajzen's Planned Behavior Theory (TPB) is used to explain consumers' organic food selection behaviors. In addition, the moderating role of uncertainty about organic foods and the mediating role of the price of organic foods were tested. Data were gathered via a survey of consumers of organic foods in Turkey. The research model was tested by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) via Smart PLS3. The findings showed that consumptions motives of healthiness, easiness, mood, and convenience-price of organic foods motivate consumers to buy organic foods. In addition, environmental concern and negative emotions influence on attitudes towards organic foods and purchase intentions. On the other hand, subjective norms and self-monitoring do not influence attitudes towards organic foods and subsequent purchase intentions. Uncertainty has a moderating effect on the relationship between attitudes and purchase intentions whereas price has no mediating effect on the relationship between attitudes and purchase intentions.

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In this study, it was aimed to determine the factors affecting consumers organic food purchase intention. In this direction; individual factors of personal values, attitude towards purchasing organic food of individual factors, and the effect of this variable on the organic food purchase intention was investigated. The role of moderator in the relationship between subjective norms' organic food purchasing attitude and organic food purchase intention is discussed. According to the results of the research, while personal values affect individual factors; while health and environmental consciousness have an impact on the attitude towards purchasing organic food, price consciousness has no effect. In addition, the findings show that the attitude towards purchasing organic food has an impact on the purchase intention. Finally, the subjective norm has a moderator effect between the organic food purchase intention and the attitude towards purchasing organic food.

Social values, especially consumption values are of importance for environmental concerns. Again, values are important for the facts that environmentally friendly products are beneficial, such products are satisfactory or in ensuring their preferability. Environmental concern is one of the variables that play an important role in the purchase of environmentally friendly products. In this study, the effect of consumption values on the environmental concern was studied. As a result of the analysis applied to the collected data, functional values, conditional values and epistemic values were found to have an effect on environmental concern. In addition, it has been found that environmental concern has an effect on purchasing behaviour.

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