Exploring a core psychopathology in disordered eating: the feelings of fat scale

Journal of Eating Disorders

Bruce D. Burns¹  Yichelle Y. Zhang¹  Stephen Touyz¹ 

[1] School of Psychology, The University of Sydney;

关键词: Eating disorders;    Feelings of fat;    EDE-Q;    Scale development;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40337-021-00401-z

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Plain English summary Many people with eating disorders report feelings regarding fat. In this paper we developed a way to measure how intensely someone has such feelings and tested how strongly this was related to potentially having an eating disorder (as measured by the EDE-Q scale). Our questionnaire had seven items which asked how intensely a person felt statements such as “I feel fat”. In three studies with a combined sample of 472 university women we found our scale to be reliable and that the association between our feelings of fat scale and EDE-Q scores was a .818 correlation. Thus, asking about the intensity of feelings of fat appears to be strongly associated with how likely someone is to have a potential eating disorder. This suggests that feelings of fat are an important element of eating disorders.

【 授权许可】

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