Food Wasting Behaviours Questionnaire. A Test of a New Method and a Natural Experiment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/m2zer
• Publication Date: 2021-05-28T17:02:24Z
• Authors: Michał Misiak; Małgorzata Sobol-...; Łukasz Sakowski; Marta Kowal; Aleksandra Jurczyk; Lidia Wojtycka
• Keywords: Food Waste; Pandemic

Measuring food wasting behaviour at the consumer level is challenging. Most existing methods focus on household level, which in turn limits possibility to study situational and individual factors shaping a single person. To fill this gap, we conducted series of pre-registered studies developed Food Wasting Behaviours Questionnaire (FWBQ), an inexpensive method suitable for assessing monitoring single-person level. We found that wide range behaviours associated with could be narrowed down five distinctive basic categories: (1) discarding because its’ unpalatability; (2) preventing waste through buying only necessities; (3) planning meals groceries; (4) sharing others; (5) feeding animals. The FWBQ allowed us investigate socio-economic influence behaviour, such as insecurity. Furthermore, started our research programme before pandemic, were able conduct natural experiment observe people changed their during pandemic. Finally, predicting amount wasted meat, dairy bakery products. In summary, have demonstrated potential utility FWBQ, easy-to-use antecedents behaviour.