 Trust: The Importance of Distinguishing between Different Actors and DimensionsJanneke de Jonge, J.C.M. van Trijp, Reint Jan Renes, Ivo A.C.M. van der Lans and Lynn J. Frewer No 7731, 99th Seminar, February 8-10, 2006, Bonn, Germany from European Association of Agricultural Economists Abstract: Many consumers lack insight into today's complex food production systems. This paper investigates the relationship between consumer confidence in the safety of food in general and consumer trust in particular institutions and organisations. The first aim of the study was to develop and validate a scale to measure general consumer confidence in the safety of food. From the analysis, two distinct dimensions emerged that were labelled optimism and pessimism. The second aim of this study was to investigate to what extent general consumer confidence in the safety of food was related to consumer trust in institutions and organisations responsible for the management of food safety, taking into account three underlying dimensions of trust, namely competence, openness and care for public wellbeing. The results indicate that the degree to which trust was related to optimism and pessimism was dependent upon both the actor and the dimension of trust. Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:eaae99:7731 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 99th Seminar, February 8-10, 2006, Bonn, Germany from European Association of Agricultural Economists Contact information at EDIRC. |
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