Two self-report questionnaires designed to tap into problematic attitudes common in eating disorders.
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The original questionnaire (EAT-40) had 40 items and was described in Garner, D. M., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1979). The Eating Attitudes Test: An index of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa. Psychological Medicine, 9, 273–279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700030762 (paywall). A later paper Garner, D. M., Olmstead, M. P., Bohr, Y., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1982). The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine, 12, 871–878. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700049163; paywall) gave more information and introduced a short form, the EAT-26. Scoring on both measures is the same for all items with six response levels scored 0-0-0-1-2-3 and the score is the total of the items’ scores. Both have three scales derived from exploratory factor analysis. The subscales are labelled: “dieting”, “bulimia and food preoccupation” and “oral control”. The measures are free to use unaltered. See https://www.eat-26.com/permission/.
Try also #
Exploratory factor analysis
Chapters #
Mentioned in Chapter 4.
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Dates #
First created 11.ii.24, tweaked 31.iii.24.
