Towards a situational taxonomy of comfort foods: A retrospective analysis
| Autor: | Meagan T. Soffin, W. Robert Batsell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Adult Male Culture Emotions 030209 endocrinology & metabolism 03 medical and health sciences Eating Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Reward Memory Retrospective analysis Humans Situational ethics General Psychology Aged Retrospective Studies 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Loneliness Emotional eating Middle Aged Food Positive emotion Female Psychology Social psychology Negative emotion Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Appetite. 137 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8304 |
| Popis: | The concept of comfort food is heterogeneous and encompasses many different aspects that have been difficult to define. Here, we propose that a situational approach may provide a new perspective for categorizing comfort foods. Using a web-based survey, 322 respondents first provided their lay definition of comfort foods. These definitions included the components of emotions, unhealthiness, nostalgia, tastiness, and ease of preparation. Although some participants listed each of these components, half of the participants listed only one of these components, suggesting that most lay definitions of comfort food are rather sparse. Next, respondents evaluated each of 8 scenarios (illness, celebration, reward, stress, break-up, culture, lonely, and remembrance) in which comfort foods may develop. Each of these categories was endorsed by at least 19% of the sample. Subsequent analyses compared the scenarios that represented negative emotion situations (stress, break-up, lonely, and remembrance) or positive emotion situations (celebration, reward, culture, and remembrance). On the basis of these analyses, we propose a situational taxonomy of comfort food that includes 5 categories: negative emotion (stress, break-up, and lonely), positive emotion (celebration and cultural), illness, reward, and remembrance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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