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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102626
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Environmental motivation; Moral motivation; Financial motivation; Social motivation; Consumer food waste
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Food waste is a significant issue with ecological, economic, and social consequences. However, there is a lack of understanding regarding how to motivate consumers to avoid food waste. This paper addresses this gap by developing a 21-item Motivation to Avoid Food Waste (MAFW) scale, which includes four motivations: environmental, moral, financial, and social. Three studies demonstrate the scale's reliability and validity.
Food waste is one of society's biggest problems, with huge ecological, economic and social consequences. Hence, there is a necessity to derive a better insight in how consumers can be triggered to avoid food waste. Although it is generally known that motivations are important drivers of human behavior, limited attention has been paid to motivations in the food waste context and no viable measurement instrument exists that systematically takes into account the different motivations underlying the avoidance of food waste. Current scales related to food waste concern encompass attitude and awareness items only. The current paper aims to fill this gap and develops a 21-item Motivation to Avoid Food Waste (MAFW) scale. Since consumers may be driven by different motivations to avoid food waste, special attention is paid to the multidimensionality of food waste avoidance motivations. Specifically, the MAFW-scale consists of four motivations: environmental, moral, financial and social motiva-tions. Three studies demonstrate the scale's internal reliability, test-retest reliability, nomological validity, and predictive validity. The MAFW-scale fosters research into the genesis of consumers' food waste behaviors, and can serve as a tool to segment and target (un)motivated consumers.
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