Measurement of ethical food choice motives.
The two studies describe the development of three complementary scales to the Food Choice Questionnaire developed by Steptoe, Pollard & Wardle (1995). The new items address various ethical food choice motives and were derived from previous studies on vegetarianism and ethical food choice. The items were factor analysed in Study 1 (N=281) and the factor solution was confirmed in Study 2 (N=125), in which simple validity criteria were also included. Furthermore, test-retest reliability was assessed with a separate sample of subjects (N=36). The results indicated that the three new scales, Ecological Welfare (including subscales for Animal Welfare and Environment Protection), Political Values and Religion, are reliable and valid instruments for a brief screening of ethical food choice reasons.
Lindeman
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Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Väänänen
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004989:Ethics; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*