TY - JOUR
T1 - English version of the food disgust scale
T2 - Optimization and other considerations
AU - Thibodeau, Margaret
AU - Yang, Qian
AU - Ford, Rebbeca
AU - Pickering, Gary
N1 - Funding Information:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, Grant/Award Number: Discovery Grant to GP Funding information
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Kaylee Schoen, Shannon Ruzgys, Jessica Mitchell, and Hannah Pickering at Brock University and Man Chung Chau and Martha Skinner at University of Nottingham for their contribution to data collection. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript, whose suggestions have significantly improved this paper. This project was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant to GP.
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PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - The disgust elicited by food plays an important role
in food choice and consumption. Recently, Hartmann and Siegrist (Food
Quality and Preference, 2018, 63, 38–50) developed and validated in
German the food disgust scale (FDS), a 32-item instrument designed to
measure visceral disgust elicited by food. In Study 1, we tested the
English language translation of the FDS and its shortened version
(FDS-SHORT) in England (n = 85) and Canada (n = 70). The
internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha and mean interitem correlation
[MCI]) was acceptable for both the FDS (α = .90, MIC = .22) and the
FDS-SHORT (α = .73, MIC = .25). Exploratory factor analysis revealed
that the English and German versions of the FDS had similar underlying
structure and good discriminant validity. In Study 2, female
participants (n = 159) who completed the FDS where the anchor term disgusted was used had higher FDS-SHORT scores than either their male counterparts or females for whom the anchor term grossed out was used (F[2, 266] = 11.1, p < .001). As grossed out
captures only visceral rather than moral disgust, we recommend its
adoption in English versions of these scales. These studies confirm
that, as modified, the English FDS and FDS-SHORT are reliable and can be
used with confidence in future research.
AB - The disgust elicited by food plays an important role
in food choice and consumption. Recently, Hartmann and Siegrist (Food
Quality and Preference, 2018, 63, 38–50) developed and validated in
German the food disgust scale (FDS), a 32-item instrument designed to
measure visceral disgust elicited by food. In Study 1, we tested the
English language translation of the FDS and its shortened version
(FDS-SHORT) in England (n = 85) and Canada (n = 70). The
internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha and mean interitem correlation
[MCI]) was acceptable for both the FDS (α = .90, MIC = .22) and the
FDS-SHORT (α = .73, MIC = .25). Exploratory factor analysis revealed
that the English and German versions of the FDS had similar underlying
structure and good discriminant validity. In Study 2, female
participants (n = 159) who completed the FDS where the anchor term disgusted was used had higher FDS-SHORT scores than either their male counterparts or females for whom the anchor term grossed out was used (F[2, 266] = 11.1, p < .001). As grossed out
captures only visceral rather than moral disgust, we recommend its
adoption in English versions of these scales. These studies confirm
that, as modified, the English FDS and FDS-SHORT are reliable and can be
used with confidence in future research.
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U2 - 10.1111/joss.12639
DO - 10.1111/joss.12639
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099199199
VL - 36
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Sensory Studies
JF - Journal of Sensory Studies
SN - 0887-8250
IS - 2
M1 - e12639
ER -