Markowski Kelly L
The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
J Soc Psychol. 2023 May 4;163(3):294-310. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2105194. Epub 2022 Aug 7.
An interesting finding in the literature on vegetarianism and veganism finds that vegetarians and vegans often report that they deviate from their diets from time to time. Work examining this phenomenon finds that these dietary lapses relate to many factors; however, little research examines how these factors collectively influence dietary lapses while also controlling for the relationships that may exist among factors. Here, I fill this gap by drawing from the unified model of vegetarian identity (UMVI) and identity theory (IT) to propose an inclusive model of dietary lapses. Structural equation model results from a sample of 488 vegans reveal differences in how identity and interactional processes relate to dietary lapses across ethical and health motivations. This work is important because it highlights how identities relate to dietary behaviors differently for ethical and health vegans; it also provides fruitful avenues for future work in this area.
素食主义和纯素主义文献中的一项有趣发现是，素食者和纯素者经常报告他们会时不时偏离自己的饮食。研究这一现象的工作发现，这些饮食失误与许多因素有关；然而，很少有研究考察这些因素如何共同影响饮食失误，同时还控制可能存在于各因素之间的关系。在此，我通过借鉴素食身份统一模型（UMVI）和身份理论（IT）来填补这一空白，提出一个饮食失误的包容性模型。对488名纯素者样本进行的结构方程模型结果揭示了身份认同和互动过程在道德和健康动机方面与饮食失误的关联方式存在差异。这项工作很重要，因为它凸显了道德素食者和健康素食者的身份认同与饮食行为的关联方式不同；它还为该领域的未来研究提供了富有成果的途径。
