Food Anti-consumption and Consumer Well-being (PDF)

There are 14 papers included in this special issue. First paper, "e;Exploring inside the box: a cross cultural examination of stimuli affecting fast food addiction"e;, authored by Hania and colleagues is a cross-cultural study and highlights the role of personal, social, and demographic factors affecting food addiction. Second paper, "e;Social media analysis of anti-consumption in Turkey"e;, authored by Khan and colleagues aims to examine consumer perceptions of food anti-consumption in a cultural context of Turkey. Third paper, "e;Factors influencing Turkish parents' intentions towards anti-consumption of junk food"e;, authored by Yarimoglu and colleagues is aimed at investigating role of attitude, norms, and behavioural control to determine junk food anti-consumption among children in a Turkish context. Fourth paper, "e;Eating habits of polish university students depending on the direction of studies and gender"e;, authored by Tarnowska and colleague aims to examine the binge eating habits of university students, intersecting the findings based on gender. Fifth paper, "e;The impact of self-congruity (symbolic and functional) on brand hate: A study based on Self-congruity theory"e;, authored by Tahir and colleagues investigates the impact of symbolic and functional incongruity to study brand hate, supported empirically to test the hypotheses. Sixth paper, "e;Farmer Behavior and Perception regarding food waste and unsold food"e;, authored by Alessandro and colleagues aims to study the farmers' attitude towards food waste Behavior. Seventh paper, "e;Consumers' anti-consumption behavior toward organic food purchase: an analysis using SEM"e;, authored by Mohammad Ali and colleagues highlights the role of Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) based antecedents of organic food consumption. The eighth paper, "e;Is Anti-consumption Driving Meat Consumption Changes in Australia?"e; authored by Malek and colleagues aims to determine the factors which can increase or decrease the meat consumption in Australia. The ninth paper, "e;Organic Shoppers' involvement in organic foods: Self and identity"e;, authored by Yun-Hee and colleagues aims to understand consumer identity issues related to organic food satisfaction and the resultant word-of-mouth. . Tenth paper, "e;Preaching to the middle of the Road: Strategic differences in persuasive appeals for meat anti-consumption"e;, authored by Catherine and colleagues explores the strategic differences in marketing communication tactics used by vegan and humane brands. The eleventh paper, "e;Brand Hate: The Case of Starbucks in France"e; authored by Glyn and colleagues aims to explore the antecedents and consequences of negative affect in the food sector. By employing a mixed-method design, data was collected from 324 business school students. The Twelfth paper, "e;Nutritional traffic light and self-regulatory consumption: the role of emotions"e;, authored by Isabel and colleagues investigated the impact of nutritional traffic lights to reduce consumers' intention of unhealthy food consumption. The thirteenth paper, "e;The role of religious motivation in an international consumer boycott"e;, authored by Nazlida and colleagues tests the role of intrinsic religious motivation to boycott US based brands. The fourteenth paper, "e;Model construction of engagement and outcomes in consumers food life: evidence from chain stores customer"e;, authored by Saman and colleagues signify the role of consumer lifestyles and personality to examine their satisfaction and loyalty.