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Reliability and predictive validity of the Food Technology Neophobia Scale
G Evans1, C Kermarrec, T Sable
1CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, PO Box 10041, Adelaide BC, SA 5000, Australia.
Abstract:
The recently developed Food Technology Neophobia Scale (FTNS) was further tested to assess scale reliability. On 2 occasions, 131 consumers responded to the FTNS, technologies descriptions and 'willingness to try' food technologies for 7 products. In the second session, they were offered foods to taste. 'Information seeking' was measured as a potential confounder of stability. The intra-class correlation was 0.86 and there was no difference between the FTNS scores (p>0.05). Correlations with 'willingness to try' novel technologies were -0.39 to -0.58. The FTNS is confirmed as a reliable and predictive measure of responses to novel food technologies.
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