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Women's Responses to Written Nutrition Messages
Author(s) -
Sims Laura S.
Publication year - 1982
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 - 10.1177/1077727x8201100107
Subject(s) - dieting , respondent , reading (process) , psychology , weight control , control (management) , nutrition facts label , social psychology , medicine , weight loss , computer science , endocrinology , environmental health , artificial intelligence , linguistics , political science , law , obesity , philosophy
One hundred forty‐three adult women voluntarily provided written responses to mes sages on the topics of weight control and vitamin supplements. These messages were written in two styles: those defined as “high human interest” were written in the first person and in a highly personal style; in contrast, “low human interest” messages presented the information in an equally readable format, but with less personal lan guage. After reading the message on weight control, the women recorded more thoughts which related to their own experiences with dieting and weight control. However, in response to the message about vitamin supplements, respondents wrote more questions or asked for clarification. The level of the respondent's nutrition knowledge was signifi cantly correlated with the total number of responses written after reading the vitamin supplement message and also with responses to the “high human interest” messages.