The impact of Israel’s Front-of-Package labeling reform on consumers' behavior and intentions to change dietary habits

Table 3 Multiple hierarchical linear regression model for using FOP labels (N = 487)

	B	SeB	β	p value
Step 1
Gender (male)	0.13	0.10	0.06	0.162
Age	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.804
Ethnicity (Jews)	− 0.24	0.12	− 0.07	0.057
Education level (academic)	− 0.19	0.10	− 0.08	0.052
Health status	0.04	0.11	0.01	0.720
Step 2
Body weight	0.13	0.10	0.05	0.187
Health motivation	0.07	0.05	0.06	0.157
Importance of healthy nutrition	0.20	0.08	0.11	0.012
Healthy nutrition	0.40	0.05	0.32	< 0.001
Step 3
Media exposure	0.10	0.04	0.09	0.026
Positive attitudes	0.30	0.06	0.24	< 0.001
Step 4—HBM
Perceived benefits	0.18	0.06	0.14	0.002
Perceived barriers	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.955
Perceived importance of reading FOP labels	0.23	0.10	0.09	0.024

Step 1: Adj. R² = .029, p = 0.003. Step 2: ΔAdj. R² = .231, p < 0.001. Step 3: ΔAdj. R² = .101, p < 0.001. Step 4: ΔAdj. R² = .026, p < 0.001. Total model: Adj. R² = .387, F(14, 472) = 20.58, p < 0.001

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