Table 4.
The means, standard deviations, and F-tests of differences of the measurement “perceived change in future diet: stability of attitudes toward organic food” across age.
| Perceived Change in Future Diet: Stability of Attitudes toward Organic Food | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | Below 20 (N = 206) | 20–29 (N = 476) | 30–39 (N = 125) | 40 and above (N = 201) | F |
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| (1) the frequency of daily OF eating (1 = never; 5 = very frequent) | 3.10 a | 0.867 | 2.86 | 0.819 | 2.72 b | 0.809 | 2.76 | 0.772 | 7.991 | 0.000 * |
| (2) the future possibility of increasing OF eating frequency (1 = must be; 5 = not at all) | 3.73 | 0.897 | 3.64 b | 0.815 | 3.84 | 0.846 | 3.92 a | 0.865 | 5.746 | 0.001 * |
| (3) the influencing extent of the COVID-19 crisis to future increase OF eating (1 = not at all; 5 = very much) | 3.69 b | 0.873 | 3.42 | 0.902 | 3.26 a | 1.069 | 3.34 | 0.978 | 7.275 | 0.000 * |
(“OF” as organic food; * Significant at a 0.05 level; Superscript “a” indicates the lowest score; Superscript “b” indicates the highest score).