Healthy and Sustainable Food Shopping: A Survey of Intentions and Motivations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the relationship between sustainable and healthy food shopping behavior comparing general motivation with the immediate intention to act.

Method

We conducted an online survey of 144 staff at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, using a questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Self-Determination Theory to compute the Behavioral Intention score and the Relative Autonomy Index in relation to healthy and sustainable grocery shopping.

Results

The intention to shop healthy food was higher (p < 0.001, Cohen's d = 0.56) than the intention to shop in a sustainable way. A significant intention-action gap was observed for both healthy (p < 0.001, Cohen's d = 0.97) and sustainable grocery shopping (p < 0.001,

SUBMITTER: Blanke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924458 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature