Health Psychology in Context

Marks, David F.

doi:10.1177/135910539600100102

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“…Our study underlines the importance of measuring actual behaviour (food choice in a real-life situation) rather than using stated preferences or intentions as a proxy for food choice. Behavioural intentions are a commonly used outcome measure in social psychology and health research, but have been found to lack predictive and explanatory value in models of health behavior [38][39][40], and have long been subject of debate. While no outcome measure can be expected to have complete predictive power, behavioural intentions are subject to intervening variables and results of meta-analyses have indicated that they tend to account for between 19 and 38% of variance in behaviour [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

What I say isn’t always what I do: Investigating differences in children’s reported and actual snack food preferences

Jones

Kervin

Reis

et al. 2012

Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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The current study sought to explore discrepancies between children's stated snack food motivations and actual food choices, using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a measure of implicit attitudes towards 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods. Participants were children aged 6-12 years (n=118), from two primary schools on the South Coast of NSW, Australia -a public school in a semi-rural suburb south of a sea-side city and a public school in a largely residential northern suburb of the same city. The children completed a questionnaire about motivations for snack choices, participated in an activity, completed two further questionnaires, selected snack foods from an in-class store, and participated in two rounds of an IAT 'game' pairing pictures of snack foods with positive and negative words. As hypothesized, the majority of children reported 'healthiness' as their primary motivator for snack food choice, but when faced with an actual purchase decision predominantly chose unhealthy snacks. It appears that children may have internalized the 'moral' values attributed to healthy and unhealthy foods and that this process influences both their explicit and implicit attitudes. However, their actual food choices are likely to be influenced by other factors, and thus more complex to understand and influence.Keywords investigating, food, differences, actual, children, reported, preferences, snack, i, say, isn, t, always, do Abstract: The current study sought to explore discrepancies between children's stated snack food motivations and actual food choices, using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a measure of implicit attitudes towards 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods. Participants were children aged 6-12 years (n=118), from two primary schools on the South Coast of NSW, Australia -a public school in a semi-rural suburb south of a sea-side city and a public school in a largely residential northern suburb of the same city. The children completed a questionnaire about motivations for snack choices, participated in an activity, completed two further questionnaires, selected snack foods from an in-class store, and participated in two rounds of an IAT 'game' pairing pictures of snack foods with positive and negative words. As hypothesized, the majority of children reported 'healthiness' as their primary motivator for snack food choice, but when faced with an actual purchase decision predominantly chose unhealthy snacks. It appears that children may have internalized the 'moral' values attributed to healthy and unhealthy foods and that this process influences both their explicit and implicit attitudes. However, their actual food choices are likely to be influenced by other factors, and thus more complex to understand and influence.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What I say isn’t always what I do: Investigating differences in children’s reported and actual snack food preferences

Jones

Kervin

Reis

et al. 2012

Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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“…Yet their voices are conspicuously absent from debates about health inequalities and the social injustices that underpin them (Marks, 1996).…”

Section: Challenging Mainstream Health Psychologymentioning

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Community Health Psychology: Promoting Analysis and Action for Social Change

2004

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“…All of the participants' interviews were analysed together, so that the diversity of perspectives on each code was preserved under that code. The initial 'theory-driven' coding frame was prompted by a 'levels of context' model (including lifestyle; social/community; living and working conditions; macroenvironment - Marks, 1996;. Analysis began by categorising segments of the interviews which identified a factor related to condom use which could be located at one of these four levels (e.g.…”

Section: Methods: Interviews and Group Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%