Motives for food choice: a comparison of consumers from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and New Zealand

Prescott, John; Young, O.A.; O'Neill, Lynda; Yau, N.J.N.; Stevens, Rhys

doi:10.1016/s0950-3293(02)00010-1

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“…Cantarero et al found that people prefer to consume food that they associate symbolically with their own culture, as it reinforces their sense of belonging [71]. A multi-national study by Prescott et al [72] concluded that geographical location can be less important than common cultural values in determining food choice. Food is ingested individually but it is often grown, processed and prepared by a group (or in this globalised world, multiple groups) [73].…”

Section: Food Related Wellbeingmentioning

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Section: Food Related Wellbeingmentioning

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

2018

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“…The FCQ has been used extensively across a number of different population groups (e.g. references [29][30][31][32]. In the present context the wording of some items was modified so that it was couched in terms of the child.…”

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“…Knowing upon what basis parents make decisions about exposing their children to foods is a necessary prerequisite to addressing parental food choices and therefore children's exposure to foods. Adults in general consider a broad range of factors including taste, price, health and convenience (6,(29)(30)(31) when making food choices. However there may be particular patterns of food choice motives unique to parents.…”

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Parents’ food choice motives and their associations with children’s food preferences

Russell

Worsley

Liem

2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The objective was to investigate parents' motives for selecting foods for their children and the associations between these motives and children's food preferences. Design: Cross-sectional survey. A modified version of the Food Choice Questionnaire was used to assess parents' food choice motives. Parents also reported children's liking/disliking of 176 food and beverage items on 5-point Likert scales. Patterns of food choice motives were examined with exploratory principal component analysis. Associations between motives and children's food preferences were assessed with linear regression while one-way and two-way ANOVA were used to test for sociodemographic differences. Setting: Two Australian cities. Subjects: Parents (n 371) of 2-5-year-old children. Results: Health, nutrition and taste were key motivators for parents, whereas price, political concerns and advertising were among the motives considered least important. The more parents' food choice for their children was driven by what their children wanted, the less children liked vegetables (β = − 0·27, P < 0·01), fruit (β = − 0·19, P < 0·01) and cereals (β = − 0·28, P < 0·01) and the higher the number of untried foods (r = 0·17, P < 0·01). The reverse was found for parents' focus on natural/ethical motives (vegetables β = 0·17, P < 0·01; fruit β = 0·17, P < 0·01; cereals β = 0·14, P = 0·01). Health and nutrition motives bordered on statistical significance as predictors of children's fruit and vegetable preferences. Conclusions: Although parents appear well intentioned in their motives for selecting children's foods, there are gaps to be addressed in the nature of such motives (e.g. selecting foods in line with the child's desires) or the translation of health motives into healthy food choices.

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“…Among the goals of previous research has been to determine if the FCQ is cross-culturally reliable and valid. One of the first crosscultural studies of food choice motives (Prescott et al, 2002) compared responses in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and New Zealand. Since then, the FCQ has been compared in Canada, Belgium and Italy (Eertmans et al 2006) and in Belgium, Hungary, Romania and the Filipines (Januszewska et al 2011).…”

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Food4Me study: Validity and reliability of Food Choice Questionnaire in 9 European countries

Markovina

Stewart-Knox

Rankin

et al. 2015

Food Quality and Preference

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This analysis has been conducted to explore the validity and reliability of the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) across 9 European countries. Variation in the factor structure and the perceived importance of food choice motives have been compared cross-nationally.Volunteers (N=9381) were recruited from an existing panel of a social research agency to take part in the Food4Me survey in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK and Norway. The survey was administered on-line. Configural, metric and scalar invariance fell within acceptable limits and were consistent across the 9 countries.All reliability parameters were above acceptable levels. Factor analysis confirmed that all items loaded onto the same 9 factors established by Steptoe and colleagues (1995). There was highly significant agreement in the relative importance of food choice factors between countries. Price was ranked as most important food choice factor in five countries (Spain, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands), sensory appeal was ranked first for three countries (Norway, Germany and the UK) while natural content was ranked as the most important factor in Poland. Familiarity and ethical concern were consistently ranked as least important in all countries. These data suggest that the FCQ is a suitable tool for exploring food choice motives across different European populations. Differences in relative importance of factors within countries may need to be taken into account in dietary health intervention and food product development.

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Motives for food choice: a comparison of consumers from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and New Zealand

Cited by 374 publications

References 23 publications

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Parents’ food choice motives and their associations with children’s food preferences

Food4Me study: Validity and reliability of Food Choice Questionnaire in 9 European countries

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