This has implications for the design and power of studies of eating motivations and FI.
A group of 100 consumers tasted each type of cookie, scored them on "acceptability," "perceived healthiness," and "familiarity," and answered a CATA questionnaire listing eating motivations and occasions.
Background/Objectives: Several studies have assessed relationships of self-reported appetite (eating motivations, mainly by Visual Analogue Scales, VAS) with subsequent energy intake (EI), though usually in small data sets with limited power and variable designs.
Relationships of self-reported appetite (eating motivations, mainly by Visual Analogue Scales, VAS) with subsequent food intake (FI) have usually been studied in small data sets with limited power and variable designs.
For those foods that showed social patterning, socioeconomic differences in implicit and explicit liking, eating motivations, and perceived attributes of food categories, were examined using multiple regression analyses.
They reported eating motivations (e.g., health, hunger, price) and related attributes of the investigated foods (healthiness, expected satiety, value for money).
Table 3 shows the results of regression analyses investigating socioeconomic differences in eating motivations, finding significant differences by household income group for Health, Convenience, Price and Weight control.
As well as liking, several other diet-related motivations have been shown to influence food choice, reflected in measures developed to assess the range of eating motivations (Eating Motivations Survey; Food Choice Questionnaire: Renner, Sproesser, Strohbach, & Schupp, 2012; Steptoe, Pollard, & Wardle, 1995).
Individuals would be expected to choose foods according to their reported eating motivations where possible.
