The purpose of this study is to conceptually and empirically verify the meaning of the food construct, while adapting and validating the Meaning of Food in Life Questionnaire proposed by Arbit et al. (2017) into Spanish and comparing groups with specific and non-specific eating patterns in relation to the meaning of food.,Confirmatory factor analysis and multivariate analysis involving groups with specific and non-specific eating patterns.,Results show that the adapted version of the scale retained the five food meaning factors, although four items from the original version had to be removed. Multivariate analyses of variance show that there are significant differences in the moral and sacred factors of food meaning when comparing people with specific and non-specific eating patterns. Significant differences in the moral, sacred and social factors were found when comparing between people with a specific diet, vegans/vegetarians and people who do not consume gluten/lactose or are on a diet.,Differences in the meanings attributed to food can be observed among the different ways people eat. This could have implications on ethics, sustainability and well-being by considering the characteristics of the five factors of food meaning.,This study suggests that food meaning is a complex and rational process, where eating patterns play a key role in the attribution of meaning.

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饮食模式中食物的意义

本研究的目的是从概念上和经验上验证食物结构的含义，同时适应和验证 Arbit 等人提出的食物在生活问卷中的含义。(2017) 翻译成西班牙语，并比较具有特定和非特定饮食模式的群体与食物含义的关系。验证性因素分析和多变量分析涉及具有特定和非特定饮食模式的群体。,结果表明该量表保留了五个食物含义因素，但必须删除原始版本中的四个项目。多变量方差分析表明，在比较具有特定和非特定饮食模式的人时，食物意义的道德和神圣因素存在显着差异。道德上的显着差异，在比较特定饮食的人、纯素食者/素食者和不摄入麸质/乳糖或正在节食的人时，发现了神圣和社会因素。在人们不同的饮食方式中，可以观察到食物所赋予的含义的差异. 通过考虑食物意义的五个因素的特征，这可能对伦理、可持续性和福祉产生影响。本研究表明，食物意义是一个复杂而理性的过程，其中饮食模式在意义的归因中起着关键作用.