Plant-Based Eating: A Psychometric Assessment of Related Psychosocial and Psychopolitical Variables

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n53.08

Mariano Nadalig, Débora Imhoff, Marcos Cupani
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3475-2769
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
mariano.nadalig@outlook.com

Débora Imhoff
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-1893
IIPSI / Conicet / Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
dimhoff@unc.edu.ar

Marcos Cupani
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2132-5552
IIPSI / Conicet / Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Argentina
marcoscup@gmail.com

Abstract:

Plant-based eating brings together, among others, vegetarian and vegan diets, and is one of the main approaches to mitigate climate change. In this study, scale psychometric properties (internal structure, reliability, and concurrent validity) were adapted and assessed to evaluate psychosocial and psychopolitical variables related to the acceptance or rejection of this eating style. Specifically, measurements of the meaning of food in life, speciesism, carnism, the perception of vegetarianism and veganism as threats, and prejudice against vegetarians and vegans were considered. An instrumental quantitative empirical study was conducted with a non-probabilistic accidental sample of N=577 adults residing in Argentina. The study confirmed the psychometric adequacy of the measurements considered. 

Keywords: eating, speciesism, carnism, prejudice, veganism.