Plant-Based Eating: A Psychometric Assessment of Related Psychosocial and Psychopolitical Variables

Alimentación a base de plantas: evaluación psicométrica de variables psicosociales y psicopolíticas vinculadas

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No. 53 (2025): Enero-Marzo
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Nadalig, M., Imhoff, D., & Cupani, M. (2025). Plant-Based Eating: A Psychometric Assessment of Related Psychosocial and Psychopolitical Variables. Tabula Rasa, 53, 169-194. https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n53.08
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Mariano Nadalig
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Débora Imhoff
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-1893

Marcos Cupani
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Mariano Nadalig,

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Débora Imhoff,



Marcos Cupani,



Plant-based eating brings together, among others, vegetarian and vegan diets, and is one of the main approaches to mitigate climate change. In this study, scale psychometric properties (internal structure, reliability, and concurrent validity) were adapted and assessed to evaluate psychosocial and psychopolitical variables related to the acceptance or rejection of this eating style. Specifically, measurements of the meaning of food in life, speciesism, carnism, the perception of vegetarianism and veganism as threats, and prejudice against vegetarians and vegans were considered. An instrumental quantitative empirical study was conducted with a non-probabilistic accidental sample of N=577 adults residing in Argentina. The study confirmed the psychometric adequacy of the measurements considered.

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