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<p>Food citizenship (FC) offers a critical lens for reimagining food systems and advancing more sustainable, democratic forms of governance. Despite its normative appeal, FC remains conceptually underdeveloped and empirically untested. This study develops and validates a conceptual framework for understanding the psychological dimensions of food citizenship and operationalises it using standard psychometric procedures. We hypothesised that a sense of responsibility, personal values, food system-related knowledge, and food citizenship behaviours constitute four interrelated facets of FC multidimensional construct. Through an expert review study, lay cognitive interviews, and an online survey (<i>N</i> = 400), we identified four empirically distinct yet connected dimensions: <i>citizen responsibilities, behaviours directed toward food system change, behaviours to reduce food waste,</i> and <i>a person valuing the sustainable food system</i>. Each dimension captures a specific aspect of how individuals engage with food citizenship across contexts. By operationalising food citizenship as a measurable construct, this study advances understanding of its psychological foundations and highlights its policy relevance as both an individual characteristic and a mechanism for promoting food system change. It offers a means to assess public engagement with food systems, allowing policymakers to track shifts over time and across demographic contexts, and to inform the development of policy interventions.</p>

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Understanding the multi-dimensional structure of the food citizenship concept

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    2026年8月4日

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  • L. Timotijevic,
  • C. Jenkinson,
  • C. Fife-Schaw,
  • L. Mohebati,
  • M. M. Raats,
  • C. Hodgkins,
  • H. Rodrigues,
  • G. M. Breakwell

摘要

Food citizenship (FC) offers a critical lens for reimagining food systems and advancing more sustainable, democratic forms of governance. Despite its normative appeal, FC remains conceptually underdeveloped and empirically untested. This study develops and validates a conceptual framework for understanding the psychological dimensions of food citizenship and operationalises it using standard psychometric procedures. We hypothesised that a sense of responsibility, personal values, food system-related knowledge, and food citizenship behaviours constitute four interrelated facets of FC multidimensional construct. Through an expert review study, lay cognitive interviews, and an online survey (N = 400), we identified four empirically distinct yet connected dimensions: citizen responsibilities, behaviours directed toward food system change, behaviours to reduce food waste, and a person valuing the sustainable food system. Each dimension captures a specific aspect of how individuals engage with food citizenship across contexts. By operationalising food citizenship as a measurable construct, this study advances understanding of its psychological foundations and highlights its policy relevance as both an individual characteristic and a mechanism for promoting food system change. It offers a means to assess public engagement with food systems, allowing policymakers to track shifts over time and across demographic contexts, and to inform the development of policy interventions.