Title

Development Of The Attitudes Toward Vegetarians Scale

Keywords

Attitudes; Dietary restraint; Diets; Eating; Food preferences; Rating scales; Scale

Abstract

Studies have explored the motivations behind the decision to become vegetarian, and have explored the well being of vegetarians. However, little research has focused on the social psychological and interpersonal aspects of vegetarianism. The focus of this study was to develop a scale designed to measure attitudes toward vegetarians (ATVS). This scale measures a one-factor construct with adequate internal consistency. The ATVS correlated significantly with the construct of authoritarianism, and, as expected, the ATVS did not correlate significantly with social desirability. In addition, attitudes toward vegetarians were found to be generally positive. The positive attitudes toward vegetarians may be the result of using a college student population that was overwhelmingly female. © 2002 international Society for Anthrozoology.

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

Anthrozoos

Volume

15

Issue

4

Number of Pages

332-342

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2752/089279302786992441

Socpus ID

0042332150 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0042332150

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