Demographic and psychographic associations of consumer intentions to purchase healthier food products

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-26

  Burton, Melissa ^a   Wang, Wei Chun ^b   Worsley, Anthony ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; EDNP foods; Food concerns; Purchasing intentions; Survey

Indexed keywords

FAT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FAT, SUGAR AND SALT FOOD PRODUCT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PURCHASING; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UNIVERSALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922675320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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