title: Fast food perceptions: a pilot study of college students in Spain and the United States.
abstract: Comparing survey data of college students from Spain and the United States provides insight into how perceptions about fast food are culture and gender-specific. More American college males (61%) considered value (amount of food for the money) to be a priority than did other respondents (35%) and relatively few American college males (29%) cited nutritional status as important (versus 60% of other college respondents). Convenience of fast food is more important to Americans (69%) than Spaniards (48%) while more Spanish college students (49%) than Americans (18%) objected to the proliferation of fast food establishments in their own countries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McDaniel College, 2 College Hill Westminster, MD 21157, USA.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dundes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010465:Perception; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012147:Restaurants; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States