Browsing by Author "Hayatul Safrah Salleh"

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    Consumer-behavioural intention and consumption towards functional food in Malaysia
    (Kedah: Universiti Utara Malaysia, 2014-08) Hayatul Safrah Salleh
    Unhealthy eating behaviour has been linked to the risks of many chronic diseases all around the world including Malaysia. Functional foods and its association with health benefits and reducing the risk of diseases open a promising avenue for consumers to pursue a healthier life as well as extending their life expectancy. This study aims to examine the attitude dimensions, social influence and self-efficacy related factors that may influence consumer-behavioural intention to consume functional foods and to identify the relationship between consumer-behavioural intention and consumer-consumption behaviour as well as to examine the effect of past experience as moderator on the intention-behaviour relationship.
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    Consumer-behavioural Intention Towards The Consumption of Functional Food in Malaysia: Their Profiles and Behaviours
    (International Business & Economics Research Journal (ERA), 2015) Hayatul Safrah Salleh
    Unhealthy eating behaviour has been linked to the risks of many chronic diseases all around the world. Functional foods and its association with health benefits and reducing the risk of diseases open a promising avenue for consumers to pursue a healthier life as well as extending their life expectancy. This provides a great market opportunity for functional foods to be developed. Consequently, it has generated considerable consumer interest in functional food consumption. This study describes the profiles and behaviours of the consumers who are willing to consume functional foods in Malaysia. By using mall intercept surveys, data were collected from consumers shopping at hypermarkets in Malaysia. From the analysis undertaken, it was found that the level of consumer-behavioural intention to consume functional food is encouraging. The results indicated that behavioural intention towards functional food tends to be different across gender, age and marital status. However this study found that the extent of consumer-behavioural intention does not vary by ethnicity, religion, income and education. Future study was also proposed
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    The Relationship Between Attitude Dimension, Social Influence and Self-Efficacy on Behavioural Intention to Consume Functional Food among Malaysian
    (International Business Management, 2016) Hayatul Safrah Salleh; Nor Azila Mohd Noor; Nik Hazimah Nik Mat; Safiek Mokhlis; Wan Norhayati Mohamed; Yusnita Yusof
    This study is intended to minimize the gap in the literature and develop more understanding concerning the issue of unhealthy consumption behaviour among Malaysians which indeed leads to the prevalence of obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Many studies had scientifically proven that functional foods, with fortified nutritional values could help prevent the risks of NCDs and improve overall health. Therefore, this study is aimed to investigate the relationship between antecedent factors of attitude dimensions (i.e., reward, necessity, confidence and safety), social influence and self-efficacy on behavioural intention to consume functional foods among Malaysians. A survey was conducted with a sample of 452 respondents by using the self-administered questionnaire. The results revealed that only reward, self-efficacy and necessity factors significantly influence consumer-behavioural intention to consume functional foods. On the other hand, confidence, safety and social influence factors have no significant bearing on consumer-behavioural intention. The results from this study can shed further light on functional foods consumption behaviour and will be valuable for health food industry marketers in formulating effective marketing communication strategies to facilitate favourable attitudinal change towards healthy foods.