청소년의 SNS 사용 정도에 따른 조리·식사 장소별 식품안전성과 국가 식품안전성 인식 : 2021 식품소비행태조사의 청소년 자료를 이용하여

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of food safety of various food outlets on national food safety perception by usage of social network service (SNS), which is a major communication platform among middle and high school students. Adolescent data from the 2021 Consumer Behavior Survey for Food (CBSF) provided by the Korea Rural Economic Institute was used for analysis. Approximately eighty seven percentage of the participants had used SNS often or frequently. They were grouped into non-users, light users, or heavy users based on their SNS usage. In all three groups, the more concerned about school food safety, the lower the perception of national food safety. The non-users and light users who were more concerned about food safety of the restaurants tended to show the lower national food safety perceptions. The non-users who were more concerned about food safety of home-meal replacement showed significantly lower perceptions on national food safety but there were no significant relationships of the variables among the SNS users. To understand the causes of the differences among the SNS users and non-users, further research is needed on information types and contents regarding food safety and how the information is generated and disseminated on SNS among the adolescents.