The mind-set of teens towards food communications revealed by conjoint measurement and multi-food databases

Appetite. 2009 Jun;52(3):554-560. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.01.006. Epub 2009 Jan 23.

Abstract

We introduce a new type of study that combines self-profile of behaviors and attitudes regarding food together with responses to structured, systematically varied concepts about the food. We deal here with the responses of teens, for 28 different foods and beverages. The study creates a database that reveals how a person responds to different types of messaging about the food. We show how to develop the database for many different foods, from which one can compare foods to each other, or compare the performance of messages within a specific food.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior / psychology*
  • Advertising*
  • Beverages / statistics & numerical data
  • Child
  • Communication
  • Databases, Factual
  • Eating / physiology
  • Eating / psychology*
  • Female
  • Food / statistics & numerical data
  • Food Preferences / physiology
  • Food Preferences / psychology*
  • Health Behavior
  • Humans
  • Hunger / physiology
  • Male
  • Psychology, Adolescent*
  • Young Adult