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Food choice questionnaire (FCQ) revisited. Suggestions for the development of an enhanced general food motivation model

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Fotopoulos, Christos, Krystallis, Athanasios, Vassallo, Marco, Pagiaslis, Anastasios·2009·Appetite

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Recognising the need for a more statistically robust instrument to investigate general food selection determinants, the research validates and confirms Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ's) factorial design, develops ad hoc a more robust FCQ version and tests its ability to discriminate between consumer segments in terms of the importance they assign to the FCQ motivational factors. The original FCQ appears to represent a comprehensive and reliable research instrument. However, the empirical data do not support the robustness of its 9-factorial design. On the other hand, segmentation results at the subpopulation level based on the enhanced FCQ version bring about an optimistic message for the FCQ's ability to predict food selection behaviour. The paper concludes that some of the basic components of the original FCQ can be used as a basis for a new general food motivation typology. The development of such a new instrument, with fewer, of higher abstraction FCQ-based dimensions and fewer items per dimension, is a right step forward; yet such a step should be theory-driven, while a rigorous statistical testing across and within population would be necessary.

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Authors
Fotopoulos, C., Krystallis, A., Vassallo, M., & Pagiaslis, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Ioannina (GR)
  • Aarhus University (DK)
  • Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione (IT)
Corresponding author
Pagiaslis, Anastasios
Venue
Appetite
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-02
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
199-208
ISSN
0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2049726824
Cited by
192
References
21
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FWCI
3.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Appetite (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
Keywords
Food Choice Questionnaire, food motivation, food choice determinants, customer segmentation, motivational factors, questionnaire validation, factor structure, instrument development
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Food Preferences, Greece, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motivation, Surveys and Questionnaires, Models, Statistical

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