The effect of consumer involvement in light lamb meat on behavior, sensory perception, and health-related concerns

Ripoll, Guillermo ; Panea, Begoña

Resumen: Involvement can explain behavioral consequences, such as consumer decision-making and consumption. The first aim of this study is to identify the profiles of consumers based on their involvement in light lamb meat. The second aim is to study the influence of involvement on consumers’ attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, preferences, quality cues, and sensory perception regarding light lamb meat. Two consumer profiles are identified. The first cluster includes consumers who enjoyed eating light lamb meat, were conscious of their self-image, and perceived the consequences of poor choices; these consumers also perceived the probability of making an incorrect choice as high. The second cluster includes consumers who truly loved eating lamb meat, were also conscious of their self-image, and perceived the consequences of poor choices; however, these consumers were confident in not making incorrect choices. Although both involvement-based profiles showed high involvement in light lamb meat, it can be concluded that the second cluster had a higher involvement. In general, the involvement-based profiles did not influence health-related attitudes, preferences, or sensory perceptions of light lamb meat, while beliefs, behavior and quality cues were influenced by involvement.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/nu11061200

Año: 2019

Publicado en: Nutrients 11, 6 (2019), 1200 [18 pp.]
ISSN: 2072-6643

Factor impacto JCR: 4.546 (2019)

Categ. JCR: NUTRITION & DIETETICS rank: 17 / 89 = 0.191 (2019) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.329 - Nutrition and Dietetics (Q1) - Food Science (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/FITE2017-862A

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)