Revalidation and empirical application of the Cooking and Food Provisioning Action Scale (CAFPAS)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to verify the validity and empirical applicability of the CAFPAS (Cooking and Food Provisioning Action Scale), which was created in the USA in 2017 (Lahne et al., 2017; Lahne et al., 2019). The international application of standardized scales requires the creation of more than one language version of the measuring instrument. The scale was translated into Czech in several systematic steps, piloted and then incorporated into a large quantitative survey, which was carried out between January and April 2021. Data in the survey were collected by a professional research agency, using the IBM Data Collection system. The target population of the study were adults in the Czech Republic. The research sample included 1122 respondents with three quota variables – gender, education and age, which reflected the structure of the target population. The analysis demonstrated that food agency is significantly influenced by gender, age, income and marital status. In the context of the Czech Republic, the place of residence (or type of housing) was also identified as an important predictor. The Czech version of the scale confirms its wider applicability outside the US cultural environment.