Is food-related lifestyle (FRL) able to reveal food consumption patterns in non-Western cultural environments? Its adaptation and application in urban China

Appetite

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-367

  Grunert, Klaus G ^a   Perrea, Toula ^a   Zhou, Yanfeng ^b   Huang, Guang ^c   Sørensen, Bjarne T ^a   Krystallis, Athanasios ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Culture; Food related lifestyle; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTED FOOD RELATED LIFESTYLE INSTRUMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONSUMER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; COOKING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PERSONAL VALUE; PORK; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SHOPPING; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CULTURE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWINE;

EID: 79551588333     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.12.020     Document Type: Article

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