Food choices

Question 1

What are the 6 stages of change?

Answer 1

Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse
Precontemplation

Question 2

What are the main factors in the wheel of power/ privilege?

Marginalisation & prejudices faced by people

Answer 2

Citizenship
Skin colour
Formal education
Ability
Sexuality
Neurodiversity
Mental health
Body size
Housing
Wealth
Language
Gender

Question 3

What are the main factors as to why people choose the foods they choose?

Answer 3

Food availability
Cost of food (finance)
Facilities and resources available
How to prepare the food
Cooking skills
Where you live - geography
Culture and religion
Access to shops (& transport)
How you feel about food
Education
Nutritional values
Health 
Politics
Anthropology
Marketing and economics

Question 4

What causes psychological influences in food choice?

Answer 4

Norms
Beliefs
Knowledge
Attitudes

Question 5

How do attitudes effect food choice?

Answer 5

• Attitudes can be linked to preferences and what the person chooses
• ‘Attitudes can predict food related behaviour’

Question 6

What is the definition of an attitude?

Answer 6

A psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favour or disfavour.
- Some attitudes can be dormant until there is a trigger

Question 7

What compenents are related to attitudes (with food choice)

Answer 7

• Emotional or affective reaction to objects - gut reaction to particular food, like or dislike
• Behavioural tendencies towards objects - intention to consume or avoid certain foods, may be due to beliefs or health reasons, e.g avoiding chocolate
• Thoughts and/or cognitions what we believe about the consequences of consuming certain foods

Question 8

Why are attitudes and beliefs studied due to food choice

Answer 8

• Can be a barrier that needs to be overcome to improve food choice.
• Help to understand how to enhance the sequences of event leading to dietary change in individuals and the population.
• Informs food choice research

Question 9

How are attitudes and beliefs measured?

Answer 9

Dietary assessment - accurate question taking to avoid over/ under reporting.
Not easy to measure.

Directly - ask to report beliefs or evaluations
Indirectly - studying responses that are thought to be related to attitudes

Theory of reasoned action (TRA)/ Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) - a model which uses 3 factors (attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control).

Question 10

What is self efficacy?

Answer 10

A person’s perceived capability to perform a behaviour