Personalized Nutrition Advice: Preferred Ways of Receiving Information Related to Psychological Characteristics.

ABSTRACT: The primary goal of this study is to be able to discern specific types of consumers in terms of their psychosocial characteristics who may need different ways of receiving dietary advice. Knowing these types will enable a better fit of advice to consumers' psychosocial characteristics, hereby stimulating healthy eating as the probability of compliance to the advice can potentially increase. The study draws upon several psychological theories to distinguish unique underlying factors that can subsequently be used to personalize nutrition information for consumers. A number of general psychological scales (self-regulation, action and coping self-efficacy, social comparison, intrinsic motivation, health info processing, need for cognition and for affect, and regulatory focus) are filled out by

SUBMITTER: Dijksterhuis GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258260 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature