Decomposing Attitude? What Structuring Beliefs about Food Leftovers Implies for General Attitudes, Intention and Behavior

Bettina Anne-Sophie Lorenz, Monika Hartmann, Jeanette Klink-Lehmann and Nina Langen

No 260898, 2017 International Congress, August 28-September 1, 2017, Parma, Italy from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: This study aims to enhance the understanding about consumer food leftover behavior in an out-of-home setting by applying a decomposed perspective on attitudes and empirical data on 307 guests in a university canteen. Based on 12 belief statements, three attitude dimensions are derived: (1) Environment, (2) Self-Interest and (3) Resources. Path analyses on their interrelation with general attitude, behavioral intention and observed leftover behavior indicates that the dimensions have distinctive behavioral effects. Moreover, these effects differentiate when portion sizes as a situational determinant of plate leftovers are introduced as grouping variable

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11
Date: 2017-08-29
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.260898

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