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. 2019 Mar 18;11(3):653. doi: 10.3390/nu11030653

Table 8.

Relationship between consumers’ perception of coffee health benefits and motives for coffee consumption and purchasing, with chi-squared results

Consumers Perception of Coffee’s Health Benefits (%) Total Chi-Squared
Negative Positive
Habit/pleasure Negative 63.7 85.4 75.9 0.000 ***
Positive 36.3 14.6 24.1
Social Negative 72.2 85.7 76.8 0.022 **
Positive 27.3 14.3 23.2
Therapeutic Negative 76.1 91.7 77.0 0.192
Positive 23.9 8.3a 23.0
Energy Negative 76.3 72.2 76.0 0.442
Positive 23.7 27.8 24.0
Price Negative 82.2 71.0 76.2 0.031 **
Positive 17.8 29.0 23.8
Sustainability Negative 76.5 82.6 77.2 0.361
Positive 23.5 17.4 22.8
Aroma Negative 65.6 87.9 78.5 0.000 ***
Positive 34.4 12.1 21.5

Note: **, *** significant at p < 0.05; p < 0.01.