Economic hardship, ontological insecurity, and household food waste.

ABSTRACT: The experience of a downward change in one's financial situation is so common that most consumers will experience it during their lifetime, and this prevalence has been compounded by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Limited research, however, has examined the impact of economic hardship on consumers' food-related behavior. Using a sample of Canadians and Americans (n = 519; M_age = 38.4; SD_age = 13.6; 46.2% female; 85% lived alone), we identify that economic hardship significantly and negatively predicts consumer food waste behavior, such that economic hardship leads consumers to waste less food. Conversely, we also identify a positive indirect effect wherein economic hardship positively predicts ontological insecurity (i.e., the aversive feeling of being overwhelmed and

SUBMITTER: Ghafoorifard N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9759702 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature