Abstract Research into consumers’ cooking competences mostly focuses on the nutritional qualities of the resulting meals and relies on non-cumulative measures of cooking skills. In response, the current article reports on several studies designed to construct and validate a set of cumulative scales to measure consumers’ cooking knowledge and experience as well as the link to consumers’ food-related life satisfaction. Expert interviews, focus groups, and previous research establish the themes and potential scale items. Then two surveys with representative samples of Danish food consumers serve to identify the critical scale items and assess the reliability and validity of the scales. The results demonstrate that the constructed knowledge and experience scales are cumulative, have high levels of reliability, and indicate the positive effects of such knowledge and experience on consumers’ food-related life satisfaction.

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烹饪能力对食物相关生活满意度的影响：累积经验和知识量表的构建和验证

摘要 对消费者烹饪能力的研究主要集中在所产生膳食的营养品质上，并依赖于烹饪技能的非累积测量。作为回应，本文报告了几项旨在构建和验证一组累积量表的研究，以衡量消费者的烹饪知识和经验以及与消费者与食品相关的生活满意度的联系。专家访谈、焦点小组和以前的研究确定了主题和潜在的量表项目。然后对丹麦食品消费者的代表性样本进行两次调查，以确定关键的量表项目并评估量表的可靠性和有效性。结果表明，构建的知识经验量表具有累积性，具有较高的信度，