Table 1:
Comparison of Participants’ Attitudes towards Hyperpalatable Food Scenario and Bitter Food Scenario
| Attitudes | Bitter Food Scenario | Hyperpalatable Food Scenario | Test Statistics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | McNemar’s χ2 (df) | p | Effect Size | |||||
| Positive | Neutral | Negative | Positive | Neutral | Negative | ||||
| General Sentiment Language | 145 (25) | 221 (38) | 215 (37) | 52 (9) | 164 (28) | 365 (63) | 98.67 (3) | <.001 | 0.15 |
| Absent | Present | - | Absent | Present | - | ||||
| Health Judgement Language | 442 (76) | 139 (24) | 533 (92) | 48 (8) | 49.091(1) | <.001 | 0.01 | ||
| Stigmatizing Language | 549 (94) | 32 (6) | 516 (89) | 65 (11) | 12.05 (1) | <.001 | 0.06 | ||
| Normative Language | 504 (87) | 77 (13) | 510 (88) | 71 (12) | 0.26 (1) | 0.61 | 0.24 | ||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | t (df) | p | ||||||
| Self-Other Overlap | 3.24 (1.85) | 3.21 (1.86) | 0.32 (1161) | 0.75 | 0.02 | ||||
| Empathy | 2.49 (1.06) | 2.46 (1.15) | 0.43 (1154.2) | 0.67 | 0.03 | ||||