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. 2024 Jul 2;13(13):2111.
doi: 10.3390/foods13132111.

Relationship between Presentation, Attitude, and In-Flight Meal Food Healthiness: Moderating Role of Familiarity

Ryeojin Jang  1 , Won Seok Lee  1 , Joonho Moon  2
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Relationship between Presentation, Attitude, and In-Flight Meal Food Healthiness: Moderating Role of Familiarity

Ryeojin Jang et al. Foods. .

Abstract

This work focused on the perception of the food healthiness of in-flight meals. This work adopts presentation as the determinant. This work also employs attitude as the consequence of food healthiness. This research also examines the moderating effect of familiarity on the relationship between food presentation and food healthiness. This research used a survey, and survey participants were recruited via a Clickworker platform service. Survey participants were experienced with in-flight meals. The number of observations was 317. Moreover, this research tested the research hypotheses using the Hayes process macro Model 7. The results revealed that food healthiness is positively influenced by presentation and that food healthiness positively affects attitude. Moreover, the results revealed that the type of presentation has a positive influence on attitude. Familiarity was a significant moderating variable for the relationship between food presentation and food healthiness. This work sheds light on the literature by identifying the associations among four attributes of in-flight meals. Additionally, the results of this study could be used as a reference to develop better in-flight meals.

Keywords: attitude; familiarity; food healthiness; in-flight meal; presentation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Research model.
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Results of the moderating effect of familiarity.
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