Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life (동아시아식생활학회지)

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A Study on Risk Perception Characteristics for Food Risk Elements of University Students in Yeungnam Region

영남 지역 대학생들의 식품 위해요인에 대한 위험 지각 특성 연구

  • Kim, Hyochung (Dept. of Family Counseling & Welfare.Consumer Sciences, Inje University) ;
  • Kim, Meera (Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition, Kyungpook National University)
  • 김효정 (인제대학교 가족상담복지.소비자학부) ;
  • 김미라 (경북대학교 식품영양학과)
  • Received : 2017.07.25
  • Accepted : 2017.08.17
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of risk perception characteristics for food risk elements using a psychometric paradigm from 298 university students in Yeungnam region, Korea, by a self-administered questionnaire. The respondents showed the highest level of risk concern about radioactive contaminated foods and the lowest level about GM (genetically modified) foods. In the risk perception characteristics for food risk elements, they perceived radioactive contaminated foods as a catastrophic, worried, new, and uncontrollable risk. In addition, they regarded food additives and foodborne illness as a chronic, controllable, old, and scientifically and individually known risk. According to the results of the factor analysis for risk perception characteristics, dread and unknown were categorized. In the risk perception map, mad cow disease, heavy metal contaminated foods, and radioactive contaminated foods were considered as a dreaded and unknown risk, whereas pesticide residues and GM foods were perceived as a less dreaded and unknown risk. Additionally, food additives and foodborne illness were regarded as a less dreaded and known risk and endocrine disruptors and avian influenza as a dreaded and known risk. These results imply that risk perception characteristics of consumers should be considered to establish strategies for risk communication in food science.

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