Food Neophobia Among Tourism Students
Öz
Rejection of novelty in neo-psychology is called neophobia which is mean fear of innovation. Food neophobia
expresses reluctance of people to consume new or unusual foods based on their culture and current diet. The
present study aimed to evaluate the extent to which undergraduate students (at Mersin University’s Faculty of
Tourism) experience food neophobia. The Food Neophobia Scale is used to measure the fear of new foods. A faceto-face Turkish questionnaire was applied to 370 undergraduate students consisting of three departments
(Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Department of Tourism Management, and Department of Tourism
Guidance) with method of convenience sampling. The data were analyzed through t-test, Anova and factor
analysis. It was determined that in general students' food neophabia level was neutral. On the basis of
department, it was found that Gastronomy and Culinary Arts’ students were the most open in trying new food,
whereas students of the Tourism Guidance department were found to be the most food neophobic. On the other
hand, no significant difference was found between the “food neophobia” and “gender” and “marital status”.
According to the analysis of students' attitudes towards new foods, it was determined that students were not
open to trying ethnic foods
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Nurhayat İflazoğlu
Bu kişi benim
0000-0003-4736-789X
Türkiye
Kemal Birdir
0000-0003-1353-3618
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Aralık 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
2 Haziran 2020
Kabul Tarihi
27 Aralık 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2020 Cilt: 24 Sayı: 2