Gender, Age, and Drink Selections at Restaurants

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Gender, Age, and Drink Selections at Restaurants

• Taryn Bellgard, Stephanie Turner,
• Ashley Recker
• Hanover College

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Previous Research

• Choices based on values
• (Tuorilla, Pangborn, Schutz, 1990)
• Gender roles
• (Wardle, Steptoe, Nillapun, Jonwutiwes,
• Bellisle, 2004)
• Women health conscious
• Men risk-takers

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Research Question

• Can patterns be observed in the types of people
  who drink diet or low-calorie beverages on campus
  and in local restaurants?

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Introduction

• ? Consumption of
• Soft drinks
• Carbonated beverages
• Artificially sweetened drinks
• ? Consumption of milk

• No gender difference (Appleton Conner 2001)
• Twins (de Castro, 1993)
• Males heredity
• Females environment

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Hypothesis

• Diet/low calorie drink choices
• ? Women
• ? Men

? Younger ? Older

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Participants

• 289 total participants
• 157 Female
• 132 Male
• 212 Younger
• 77 Older

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Observational Locations

• At Hanover
• Campus Center
• Underground
• The Shoebox

• In Madison
• Ponderosa
• McDonalds
• Red Pepper

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Age and Drink Choice
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Gender and Drink Choice
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Discussion

• Soft drinks weight concern,
• weight gain, high BMI
• Tuorila and Schutz (1990)
• Regular
• Diet dieting (including guilt)
• Non similar to diet
• 5.7 of younger chose milk contrary to previous
  research (Nielsen and Popkin, 2004)

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Limitations and Future Research

• 176 college 76 older
• Restaurant settings

• Ethnic diversity
• Age groups

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Questions