identity threat and eating- Females
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Q1 Invitation You are being asked to take part in a research study looking at students' personality and lifestyle. This research project is being conducted by Dr Emily Newman and Dr Kasia Banas from the University of Edinburgh. Who is this study for? In order to participate, you need to be 18 or older, and a student living in the UK. You also need to be a meat eater, with no food intolerances or allergies that would require you to have a special diet. What will happen In this study, you will be asked to complete a personality test, and you will be given individual feedback about your personality based on your responses. You will also be asked questions about your lifestyle (e.g. what do you like to eat?). Finally, you will be asked to provide some demographic information. Time Commitment The study may take up to 30 minutes. As a participant in this research, you should read and understand the following: All participants must be 18 years of age or older. Because you participation is voluntary, you are free to stop participating at any point during the study. If you wish to stop at any point, simply close your browser window. All participant responses will be completely anonymous. In other words, you will not be identified in any presentation or publication of this research. There are no foreseeable risks associated with your participation. Nevertheless, for your protection, the researchers have obtained ethical approval for the administration of the project from the University of Edinburgh Psychology Research Ethics Committee. Further Information If you have questions about or comments on this project, please email Kasia Banas at . If you want to find out about the final results of this study, you should contact Kasia Banas, at the email address mentioned above. Initiation of the study is evidence that you have read the above information and voluntarily agree to participate in this research. Again,by clicking the "Next" button below, you indicate that you have read and understood the information provided above and that you agree to participate in this study. PLEASE NOTE: Do NOT close the browser until you are prompted to do so, otherwise your responses will not be saved.
Q50 About You
Q56 Before you start, please: maximise your browser window switch off phone/email/music and anything else distracting enter your Prolific ID below (it can be found at the top of this webpage or by going to the account info)
Q11 What year were you born in?
Q12 What country were you born in?
Q13 What country do you live in at present?
United Kingdom (1)
Other - Write in (Required) (2) ______
Q14 What ethnicity are you?
White - British or Irish (1)
White - other (2)
Mixed (3)
Asian (4)
Asian British (5)
Black (6)
Black British (7)
Prefer not to say (8)
Other- Write in (Required) (9) ______
Q15 What gender are you?
Male (1)
Female (2)
Transgender (3)
Other - Write in (Required) (4) ______
Q25 What is your sexual orientation?
Heterosexual (1)
Homosexual (2)
Bisexual (3)
Prefer not to say (4)
Other - Write In (Required) (5) ______
Q42 Do you have any special dietary requirements?
No (1)
Yes (please specify) (2) ______
Q26 What is your height? (please specify units used)
Q27 What is your weight? (please specify units used)
Q52 Part 1: Your Personality
Answer If What gender are you? Female Is Selected
Q2 Thinking about your own actions, feelings and beliefs, please indicate how much you personally agree or disagree with each statement.After filling out this questionnaire, you will be give individualised feedback based on your responses.
[Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory (CFNI) questions are proprietary and have been removed from this version of the script.
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Answer If What gender are you? Female Is Not Selected
Q31 If you do not identify as female, we are afraid that you cannot participate in this study. Apologies!
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Q26 Timing
First Click (1)
Last Click (2)
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Q15 Please wait while your results are being analysed... Please allow a moment for this. When the results are ready, you will be automatically taken to the next page.
Q16 The following pages contain feedback on various aspects of your personality derived from your answers to the earlier questions.
Q17 Extraversionscore based on your responses.
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Q19 Openness to experience score based on your responses.
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Q30 Femininity score based on your responses
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Q28 Femininity score based on your responses
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Q36 You were just given feedback about your personality characteristics. How do you feel about your results?
Strongly Disagree (1) / Disagree (2) / Somewhat Disagree (3) / Neither Agree nor Disagree (4) / Somewhat Agree (5) / Agree (6) / Strongly Agree (7)I am pleased with my scores from testing (1) / / / / / / /
I feel good about myself after seeing my results from testing (2) / / / / / / /
Seeing my scores from testing was a fun experience (3) / / / / / / /
I am disappointed in my results from testing (4) / / / / / / /
My results from testing put me in a good mood (5) / / / / / / /
I feel kind of down after seeing my results from testing (6) / / / / / / /
Q37 How accurately do you think the results reflect your personality?
Strongly Disagree (1) / Disagree (2) / Somewhat Disagree (3) / Neither Agree nor Disagree (4) / Somewhat Agree (5) / Agree (6) / Strongly Agree (7)I feel that my results accurately reflect me as a person (1) / / / / / / /
My results do not reflect how I see myself (2) / / / / / / /
Q53 Part 2: Your lifestyle and health preferences In this part of the study, you will be asked about elements of your lifestyle, for example your diet or exercise habits. While answering the questions on this page, please imagine that you are on a day trip and need to choose all your meals from a restaurant menu.
Q32 Imagine that you are choosing food for your breakfast. Which item would you choose?
Fried egg on toast (1)
Toast with butter (2)
Granola with yoghurt and fruit (3)
Full cooked breakfast (4)
Banana (5)
Strawberry yoghurt (6)
Cheese sandwich (7)
Cornflakes with milk (8)
Muesli with milk (9)
Q33 Imagine that you are choosing food for your lunch. Which item would you choose?
Chicken drumsticks (1)
Cheese and spinach omelette (2)
Pasta salad (3)
Baked potato with beef chilli (4)
Chicken wrap (5)
Hummus and vegetable sticks (6)
Ham and cheese toastie (7)
Pesto, chicken and mozzarella panini (8)
Vegetable soup with a wholemeal roll (9)
Q34 Imagine that you are choosing food for your dinner. Which item would you choose?
Meat feast pizza (1)
Sweet and sour chicken with fried rice (2)
Chicken Caesar salad (3)
Fish and chips (4)
Chicken and vegetable stir fry with noodles (5)
Vegetable curry with rice (6)
Fillet steak with chips (7)
Margherita pizza (8)
Roast vegetables (9)
Q35 Imagine that you are allowed to have one snack just now. Which one would you choose?
Salted roasted peanuts (1)
Cheese and crackers (2)
Grapes (3)
Salt and vinegar crisps (4)
Mixed nuts and dried fruits (5)
Carrot sticks (6)
Salted popcorn (7)
Rich tea biscuits (8)
Special K cereal bar (9)
Q38 In the next 7 days, how many times do you intend to exercise?
Q39 What are your intentions about eating and exercise over the next week?
Strongly Disagree (1) / Disagree (2) / Somewhat Disagree (3) / Neither Agree nor Disagree (4) / Somewhat Agree (5) / Agree (6) / Strongly Agree (7)I want to eat a healthy diet in the next week. (1) / / / / / / /
I intend to eat a healthy diet in the next week. (2) / / / / / / /
I intend to exercise at least 3 times in the next week. (3) / / / / / / /
Answer If What gender are you? Female Is Selected
Q40 How much do you agree of disagree with the following statements?
Strongly Disagree (1) / Disagree (2) / Somewhat Disagree (3) / Neither Agree nor Disagree (4) / Somewhat Agree (5) / Agree (6) / Strongly Agree (7)I see myself as a woman. (1) / / / / / / /
I am pleased to be a woman. (2) / / / / / / /
I feel strong ties with other women. (3) / / / / / / /
I identify with other women. (4) / / / / / / /
Q26 Thank you for participating in this study. Your participation was very valuable to us. We know you are very busy and very much appreciate the time you devoted to participating in this study. There was some information about the study that we were not able to discuss with you prior to you participating in the study, because doing so probably would have impacted your actions and thus skewed the study results. I would like to explain these things to you now. In this study, we were interested in a phenomenon called "gender identity threat": what happens when people are told that they do not satisfy some of the norms associated with their gender. In particular, we wanted to explore the effect of a gender identity threat on food choice and the intentions to exercise or to eat a healthy diet. Based on prior research, we expect to find that men who experience a threat to masculinity will tend to eat more masculine foods, and women will tend to eat more feminine foods. On the basis of the personality test included at the beginning of the study, you were given feedback about your masculinity or femininity, extraversion and openness to experiences. In particular, you were told that your responses were either below or above the average range of responses typical for your gender. This feedback was in fact not reflective of your responses, it was part of the study manipulation and it was randomly assigned to you. This deception was necessary because providing information about the true nature of the feedback could significantly influence the results of the experiment and it would also not allow for the manipulation of gender identity threat (a core aspect of the experiment). We hope this clarifies the purpose of this research, and the reason why deception was used (or we could not tell you all the details about the study prior to your participation). It is very important that you do not discuss the study with anyone else until the study is complete. Our efforts will be greatly compromised if participants come into this study knowing what it is about and how the ideas are being tested. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact Kasia Banas at or on 01316504521. Thank you again for your participation.