Climate-friendly food-choice intentions among emerging adults: extending the theory of planned behavior with objective ambivalence, climate-change worry and optimism.
| Autor: | Jylhä KM; Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden., Ojala M; School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences (Psychology), Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden., Odisho S; School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences (Psychology), Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden., Riise A; School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences (Psychology), Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2023 Jun 20; Vol. 14, pp. 1178449. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 20 (Print Publication: 2023). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1178449 |
| Abstrakt: | Climate-friendly food choices are still relatively rarely addressed in studies investigating climate engagement, particularly among young people. To address this research gap, we conducted a questionnaire study with senior high school students ( N = 474). Our overarching theoretical framework is the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), which we extended with emotional factors (climate-change worry and optimism) and attitudinal ambivalence. We found that all factors included, except for optimism, correlated with the food-choice intentions. In multiple regression analyses, worry was the second strongest predictor, after attitudes. Moreover, a measure of objective ambivalence moderated the correlation between attitudes and intentions by weakening it. The results support the validity of using the TPB model when explaining intentions to make climate-friendly food choices among emerging adults. However, our results suggest that it is also important to consider emotions-in this case climate-change worry-and the existence of conflicting evaluations about choosing climate-friendly food. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Jylhä, Ojala, Odisho and Riise.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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