The Measurement of Food Attitudes and Personality Characteristics of U.S. Air Force Personnel in Alaska

Abstract

The Food Preference Questionnaire contained 100 food names (two of which were the same and were used as a reliability check and one of which was a pseudo-food , "braised trake "). A factor analytic study of the questionnaire itself sought clusters of items that were rated the same by most people. Most of the variability, however , was item specific, and clusters which did occur were along logical tines. For example, a group of sweet items clustere d together composing what we called the Sweets Fac 'or. The factor structure for isolated and control groups in Alaska was very similar. However , the structure in Alaska was distinct from that of a sample collected in a previous study within the Continental United States where people did not tend to cluster sweet items.

Effects of Isolation on Food Habits

“…The effect of isolated duty on the need for food variety was also pursued in the Alaskan research (Stein and Meiselman, 1977).…”