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Analysis of Levels of Risk Perception using Psychometric Paradigm and Factors Affecting Concerns about Food Risk Elements of Housewives in Daegu

심리측정 패러다임을 이용한 대구 지역 주부들의 식품 위해요소에 대한 위험 지각 수준 및 우려도에 영향을 미치는 요인 분석

  • Kim, Hyochung (Dept. of Human Counseling & Welfare, The Institute of Human Environmental Welfare, Inje University) ;
  • Han, Jin-Young (Graduate School of Education, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Meera (Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition, Kyungpook National University, Daegu Namgu Center for Children's Foodservice Management)
  • 김효정 (인제대학교 생활상담복지학부, 인간환경복지연구소) ;
  • 한진영 (경북대학교 교육대학원) ;
  • 김미라 (경북대학교 식품영양학과, 대구남구 어린이급식관리지원센터)
  • Received : 2015.06.23
  • Accepted : 2015.07.28
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

This study examined the levels of risk perception of food risk elements by adopting a psychometric paradigm and analyzed factors affecting concerns about food risk elements to obtain basic materials for food safety policy. The data were collected from 296 housewives in Daegu, Korea, by a self-administered questionnaire. Frequency distributions, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis, factor analysis, Cronbach's ${alpha}$, and multiple regression analyses were conducted by SPSS 21.0. The mean level of concern for food safety was 3.75/5.00 points, and the mean percentage of correct answers about heavy metal contamination was highest among food risk elements. The respondents perceived radioactive contaminated foods, GM foods, and endocrine disruptors as a new, delayed, scientifically unknown, involuntary, serious, and uncontrollable risk in risk perception. According to the result of factor analysis for risk perception, two factors such as non-controllability and dread were categorized. In the risk perception map, radioactive contaminated foods and GM foods were considered as an uncontrollable and dreaded risk, heavy metal contamination, endocrine disruptors, and pesticide residues as a controllable and dreaded risk, and foodborne illness and food additives as a controllable and less dreaded risk. On the other hand, the levels of concerns about food risk elements were higher in order of radioactive contaminated foods, GM foods, and endocrine disruptors. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that age, concern for food safety, percentage of correct answers about food risk elements, non-controllability, and dread influenced the concerns about food risk elements. These results imply that food safety policies should consider differences in consumer's risk perception of food risk elements.

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