English version of the food disgust scale: Optimization and other considerations

Thibodeau, Margaret; Yang, Qian; Ford, Rebbeca; Pickering, Gary

Abstract

© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. The disgust elicited by food plays an important role in food choice and consumption. Recently, Hartmann and Siegrist (Food Quality and Preference, 2018, 63, 38–50) developed and validated in German the food disgust scale (FDS), a 32-item instrument designed to measure visceral disgust elicited by food. In Study 1, we tested the English language translation of the FDS and its shortened version (FDS-SHORT) in England (n = 85) and Canada (n = 70). The internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha and mean interitem correlation [MCI]) was acceptable for both the FDS (α =.90, MIC =.22) and the FDS-SHORT (α =.73, MIC =.25). Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the English and German versions of the FDS had similar underlying structure and good discriminant validity. In Study 2, female participants (n = 159) who completed the FDS where the anchor term disgusted was used had higher FDS-SHORT scores than either their male counterparts or females for whom the anchor term grossed out was used (F[2, 266] = 11.1, p less than  .001). As grossed out captures only visceral rather than moral disgust, we recommend its adoption in English versions of these scales. These studies confirm that, as modified, the English FDS and FDS-SHORT are reliable and can be used with confidence in future research.

Citation

Thibodeau, M., Yang, Q., Ford, R., & Pickering, G. (2021). English version of the food disgust scale: Optimization and other considerations. Journal of Sensory Studies, 36(2), Article e12639. https://doi.org/10.1111/joss.12639

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 14, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jan 3, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Deposit Date: Aug 26, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 4, 2022
• Journal: Journal of Sensory Studies
• Print ISSN: 0887-8250
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-459X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 2
• Article Number: e12639
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joss.12639
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5251886
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joss.12639
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Thibodeau, M, Yang, Q, Ford, R, Pickering, G. English version of the food disgust scale: Optimization and other considerations. J Sens Stud. 2021; 36:e12639., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/joss.12639I. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.