Saher Marieke, Lindeman Marjaana, Hursti Ulla-Kaisa Koivisto
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Appetite. 2006 May;46(3):324-31. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2006.01.015. Epub 2006 Mar 20.
Finnish students (N=3261) filled out a questionnaire on attitudes towards genetically modified and organic food, plus the rational-experiential inventory, the magical thinking about food and health scale, Schwartz's value survey and the behavioural inhibition scale. In addition, they reported their eating of meat. Structural equation modelling of these measures had greater explanatory power for attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) foods than for attitudes towards organic foods (OF). GM attitudes were best predicted by natural science education and magical food and health beliefs, which mediated the influence of thinking styles. Positive attitudes towards organic food, on the other hand, were more directly related to such individual differences as thinking styles and set of values. The results of the study indicate that OF attitudes are rooted in more fundamental personal attributes than GM attitudes, which are embedded in a more complex but also in a more modifiable network of characteristics.
芬兰学生（N = 3261）填写了一份关于对转基因食品和有机食品态度的问卷，外加理性 - 经验量表、对食物与健康的神奇思维量表、施瓦茨价值观调查问卷以及行为抑制量表。此外，他们还报告了自己的肉类食用情况。对这些测量指标进行的结构方程模型分析，对转基因食品态度的解释力比对有机食品态度的解释力更强。对转基因食品的态度最好由自然科学教育以及神奇的食物与健康信念来预测，这些因素介导了思维方式的影响。另一方面，对有机食品的积极态度则更直接地与思维方式和价值观等个体差异相关。研究结果表明，与转基因食品态度相比，有机食品态度更源于更基本的个人属性，转基因食品态度则嵌入在一个更复杂但也更易改变的特征网络中。
