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The food situations questionnaire: A measure of children's willingness to try novel foods in stimulating and non-stimulating situations

Loewen, R., Pliner, P.·2000·Appetite

Abstract

This paper reports the development and validation of a self-report measure of food neophobia for children. Items described hypothetical situations in which novel foods might be encountered and asked children to report how they would feel about tasting or eating them. Ten items, representing two correlated subscales, were selected from among a larger number, using standard item selection measures with a total of 335 children, aged 7-12 years. The two subscales represent willingness to try novel foods in highly stimulating circumstances and willingness to try novel foods in non-stimulating circumstances. The test was shown to significantly predict actual willingness to taste novel foods in a laboratory situation. In addition, it was shown to predict such willingness better than parents' reports of the children's neophobia. Finally, the test was shown to have satisfactory internal and test-retest reliabilities.

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  • Food neophobia was measured using the Food Situations Questionnaire (FSQ), which has been validated for use with 7-12-year-olds and has good internal consistency.

    “The measure has been validated for use with 7-12-year-olds and has good internal consistency (Damsbo-Svendsen et al., 2017)”

    From Children overcoming picky eating (COPE) - A cluster randomised controlled trial. (2020) · cites this paper as Loewen & Pliner, 2000

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Authors
Loewen, R., & Pliner, P.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Venue
Appetite
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-12
Volume
35
Issue
3
Pages
239-250
ISSN
0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2016498661
Cited by
81
References
30
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Appetite (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychological and Educational Research Studies
Keywords
food neophobia, children, self-report measures, questionnaire development, parent report, internal consistency, test-retest reliability
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Arousal, Attitude, Child, Child Behavior, Eating, Exploratory Behavior, Female, Food Preferences, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sex Factors, Reproducibility of Results

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