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Direct linkSpence, Charles; Van Doorn, George – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
A rapidly growing body of empirical research has recently started to emerge highlighting the connotative and/or semiotic meanings that consumers typically associate with specific abstract visual design features, such as colours (either when presented individually or in combination), simple shapes/curvilinearity, and the orientation and relative…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Design, Food, Marketing
Eileen Bridges; Kendra Fowler – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2023
Bridges and Fowler (2022) collected survey data regarding grocery shopping attitudes and behaviors prior to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and followed up by collecting similar data during the pandemic. This allowed for comparisons of grocery shopping habits before and during COVID-19; in addition, survey respondents were asked how they…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Purchasing, Behavior Change
Pan, Po-Lin; Bhandari, Manu; Meng, Juan – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: Factors contributing to the obesity epidemic have powerful effects on people who are frequently exposed to the extensive advertisement of unhealthy foods. This study aimed to examine how consumers' attitudes towards health and nutrition-related (HNR) claims in food advertisements affected their healthy food choice (HFC) and how online…
Descriptors: Advertising, Food, Obesity, Knowledge Level
Ali Nawaz Khan; Hammad S. Saleh Alotaibi; Zain Ali Raza – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess how Sustainable food consumption (SFC) can improve the quality of life for consumers and encourage green food production. Sustainable consumption is an important factor in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. However, achieving SFC requires government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, Sustainability
Download full textMurray, Susan; Riggs, Angel; Montgomery, Diane – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
Consumers' perceptions of the terminology used on food production labels may lead to a perceived risk, which influences their grocery shopping decisions. Risk perception is the consumers' belief that he or she may be exposed to something that is harmful or uncertain. Women are more aware of food labels due to their perceived risk associated with…
Descriptors: Females, Attitudes, Merchandise Information, Food
Yuri Enrique Herrera Burstein; Niria Marleny Goñi Avila – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to identify and analyze research that promotes sustainable consumption among university students, understand what areas of consumption were addressed, how consumption was intended to become more sustainable and what results were reported. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was conducted using the…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Sustainability, Consumer Economics, College Students
Weaver, Lesley Jo; Henderson, Nicole; Hadley, Craig – Field Methods, 2021
Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning…
Descriptors: Food, Dietetics, Hunger, Consumer Economics
Spannring, Reingard – Education Sciences, 2019
The unfolding of the ecological disaster has led authors to reconsider the position of the human subject and his/her relationship with the earth. One entry point is the concept of ecological citizenship, which emphasizes responsibility, community, and care. However, the discourse of ecological citizenship often reduces the human subject to a…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, World Views, Power Structure
Migliorini, Paola; Wezel, Alexander; Veromann, Eve; Strassner, Carola; Srednicka-Tober, Dominika; Kahl, Johannes; Bügel, Susanne; Briz, Teresa; Kazimierczak, Renata; Brives, Hélène; Ploeger, Angelika; Gilles, Ute; Lüder, Vanessa; Schleicher-Deis, Olesa; Rastorgueva, Natalia; Tuccillo, Fabio; Talgre, Liina; Kaart, Tanel; Ismael, Diana; Rembialkowska, Ewa – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students' background knowledge, students' behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students' preferences and expectations in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Expectation, Sustainable Development, Food
Stewart, Barbara L.; Stewart, Juliana F. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2021
COVID-19 ignited a revolution in retail. Family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals, including students of retail and consumer sciences, can be the change agents that create the post-pandemic retail future. Massive disruptions to traditional retail practices for both consumers and retailers will result in changed retail environments as the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Retailing, Family and Consumer Sciences
Ates, Hüseyin – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
Global warming presents a threat for human and nature systems. For a few decades, sustainable food consumption behaviors have been considered remarkable to protect environmental sources. Changes in food consumption behaviors can benefit in improving environmental quality. While consumers are trying to reduce their environmental impact, it is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Bias
Kotecki, Jerome E.; Greene, Maurita A.; Jones, Michelle M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: Nutrition education materials are frequently used by health educators to inform consumers about quality food choices. However, evaluation of content-based factors that impact the consumer's ability to understand and act on nutrition information is lacking. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the content of a newly…
Descriptors: Literacy, Health Behavior, Food, Nutrition Instruction
Brune, Sara; Stevenson, Kathryn T.; Knollenberg, Whitney; Barbieri, Carla – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
While increasing agricultural literacy (AL) has been the focus of numerous educational programs, few AL scales have been developed specifically for children. AL programming struggles to rigorously evaluate their programs, particularly when little time is available for assessments in informal contexts. The lack of evaluation tools that allow to…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Preadolescents
Privitera, Gregory J.; Gillespie, James J.; Zuraikat, Faris M. – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: To extend findings from experimental price elasticity studies by examining these effects in a field setting and identifying gender differences in purchasing behaviour in response to variations in the cost of lower energy-dense (ED) and higher ED foods. Setting: Data were collected from low- and median-income male and female grocery…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Purchasing, Food, Costs
Greenleaf, Melissa; Robinson, Michael – Geography Teacher, 2020
The food experience involves much more than physical nourishment but also the practice of acquiring, preparing, and sharing food that defines the foodscape. This lesson will look at the term foodscape and describe its application to Mexican migrants developed in the thesis "Transnational Mexican Foodscapes in Colorado Springs" (Greenleaf…
Descriptors: Food, Geography Instruction, Human Geography, Cultural Influences
