A Social-Psychological Perspective on Food-Related Behavior
Many of the diseases which afflict people in an affluent society like the United States seem to be related to food consumption (e.g., adult-onset diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and colon cancer). In recent years, the health-related professions have become aware that their exclusive aim of diseas...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Recent Research in Psychology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Measures of Food-Related Behavior
- Defining Food-Related Behavior
- A Framework for Organizing the Measurements of Food-Related Behavior
- Current Measures of Food-Related Behavior
- Criteria for Evaluating the Measurement of Food-Related Behavior
- 3. Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge
- Definitions
- Measuring Knowledge and Beliefs
- Measuring Attitudes
- Relationship among Behavior, Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes
- 4. Preferences
- A Special Case of Attitudes
- Definitions
- Relationship Between Sensory-Related Affect and Consumption
- Determinants of Sensory-Related
- 5. Sociodemographic Determinants
- Income
- Household Size
- Education
- Gender and Age
- Wife’s Employment Status
- Ethnicity and Race
- 6. Models of Choice Behavior
- Fishbein and Ajzen’s Theory of Reasoned Action
- Triandis’s Model of Social Behavior
- Subjective Probability Model
- Social Judgment Theory
- Behavioral Alternatives Model
- 7. Food Classification Systems
- Definitions
- Professionals’ Food Guides
- Consumers’ Classification Systems
- References