Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Although street food has been the sources of unsafe food for consumption in the world including Thailand, it is interesting that many people are still choosing the food from here. The aim of this study is to investigate consumers’ decision making regarding purchasing safe street food. There is very...

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Main Authors: Khongtong, J., Ab Karim, M. S., Othman, M., Bolong, J. B.
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Language:English
Published: International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.461422022-03-23T03:25:05Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46142/ Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand Khongtong, J. Ab Karim, M. S. Othman, M. Bolong, J. B. Although street food has been the sources of unsafe food for consumption in the world including Thailand, it is interesting that many people are still choosing the food from here. The aim of this study is to investigate consumers’ decision making regarding purchasing safe street food. There is very limited research in this area, therefore this study purposes to develop and test the quality of the instrument. The instrument was developed base on purchasing decision making model, and then tested the validity and reliability of data that collected from 150 pilot respondents by using SEM analysis. The results showed the drawn model was fit with the data. Moreover, the construct reliability (CR > 0.7), convergent validity (AVE > 0.5) and discriminant validity (AVE > r 2 ) were acceptable. As a result, this instrument is capable to be applied in main study and test the research hypotheses. This pilot study can confirm that the instrument is workable and minimize the potential problem that probably occurs according to unclear instrument. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology 2015-03 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46142/1/Reliability%20and%20validity%20of%20consumers%E2%80%99%20decision%20making%20investigation%20of%20safe%20street%20food%20purchasing%2C%20pilot%20study%20in%20Nakhon%20Si%20Thammarat%2C%20Thailand.pdf Khongtong, J. and Ab Karim, M. S. and Othman, M. and Bolong, J. B. (2015) Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 5 (3). pp. 306-311. ISSN 2010-3646 http://www.ijssh.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=53&id=792 10.7763/IJSSH.2015.V5.471
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description Although street food has been the sources of unsafe food for consumption in the world including Thailand, it is interesting that many people are still choosing the food from here. The aim of this study is to investigate consumers’ decision making regarding purchasing safe street food. There is very limited research in this area, therefore this study purposes to develop and test the quality of the instrument. The instrument was developed base on purchasing decision making model, and then tested the validity and reliability of data that collected from 150 pilot respondents by using SEM analysis. The results showed the drawn model was fit with the data. Moreover, the construct reliability (CR > 0.7), convergent validity (AVE > 0.5) and discriminant validity (AVE > r 2 ) were acceptable. As a result, this instrument is capable to be applied in main study and test the research hypotheses. This pilot study can confirm that the instrument is workable and minimize the potential problem that probably occurs according to unclear instrument.
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author Khongtong, J.
Ab Karim, M. S.
Othman, M.
Bolong, J. B.
spellingShingle Khongtong, J.
Ab Karim, M. S.
Othman, M.
Bolong, J. B.
Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
author_facet Khongtong, J.
Ab Karim, M. S.
Othman, M.
Bolong, J. B.
author_sort Khongtong, J.
title Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
title_short Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
title_full Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
title_fullStr Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
title_sort reliability and validity of consumers’ decision making investigation of safe street food purchasing, pilot study in nakhon si thammarat, thailand
publisher International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology
publishDate 2015
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