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Identifying Food‐Related Values of Low‐Income Mothers
Author(s) -
Suter Carol B.,
Barbour Helen F.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7500300305
Subject(s) - low income , environmental health , business , economics , demographic economics , medicine
The major purpose of this research was to create a forced‐choice value instrument for determining hiorarchal rankings of food‐rolated values by low‐income mothers. Card‐sort interviews with 42 of these low‐income mothers had very high reliability. For each value, statements ranked highest by the interviewees were incorporated within a forced‐choice value instrument administered to the same subjects. Respective rankings of the values using the instrument and the interview schedule were: family life (1, 1), economy (2, 4), health (3, 3), friendship (4, 5), work efficiency (5, 2), and education (6, 6). The instrument appears to have potential for providing insight helpful in effecting improvement in food‐related behaviors of low‐income women.