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How innovativeness relates to social representation of new foods and to the willingness to try and use such foods
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The relationship between domain specific innovativeness scale (DSI) and social representation (SR) components of new foods (suspicion of new foods; adherence to natural food; adherence to technology; eating as an enjoyment; eating as a necessity) was explored in a survey with Finnish consumers (N = 1156). Both DSI and SR were used to predict willingness to try/use new foods, categorized into six subgroups of which three were functional (cereal-based and otherwise functional foods; functional drinks), and the remaining three categories were modified dairy products, organic products, and energy drinks. Enjoyment and low suspicion predicted 27% of variation in DSI, which, in turn, predicted up to 6% of willingness to try categories of new foods, excluding organic products. When added to the predictive model, SR components increased the prediction of all food categories, particularly functional cereal-based and organic products (up to 20.4%). Thus, DSI predicted willingness to try new foods to some extent, but SR components, most of all low suspicion of new foods and adherence to natural food, significantly improved the prediction.
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“Both VST and CI are thus relevant concepts in predicting or explaining consumer behavior with respect to foods (Huotilainen et al., 2006;van Trijp & Steenkamp, 1992).”
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“Further, research has demonstrated that domain-specific innovativeness is predictive of willingness to try and use new food products, including functional foods (Huotilainen et al., 2006).”
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“Although self-controlled consumers actively seek new food ideas and find pleasure in new food experiences-a trait previously associated with proneness to consuming functional foods (cf., Huotilainen et al., 2006)-their weaker convenience orientation may explain why they do not consider functional foods more favorable (Brečić et al., 2017).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Huotilainen, A., Pirttilä-backman, A.-M., & Tuorila, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Huotilainen, A.
- ORCID
- Tuorila, H.
- Venue
- Food Quality and Preference
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-07
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 353-361
- ISSN
- 0950-3293 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2025771734
- Cited by
- 111
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Food Quality and Preference (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- 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
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
- Keywords
- innovativeness, social representations, novel foods, willingness to try, functional foods, functional beverages, organic food, energy drinks, consumer behavior
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