Eating Attitude Test Scores in Relation to Weight, Socioeconomic Status, and Family Stability

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schmolling
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
White Women ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test

Eating attitudes were assessed by use of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT) in a sample of 288 young adults at a community college. The sample included relatively more poor and working class persons than are in a typical 4-yr. college. Mean EAT scores tended to fall at the high end of the range previously reported for nonclinical samples. EAT scores were not significantly related to socioeconomic variables. White women scored significantly higher than nonwhite women. Also a disproportionately high number of women from intact (as opposed to destabilized) homes scored above the EAT cut-off score. These and other findings raised questions about the validity of viewing the slimness motive as essentially pathological.

Eating Attitudes and Neurotic Symptoms in University Students

1983 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Clarke ◽  
R. L. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
University Students ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Clinical Severity ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test

SummaryA postal survey of male and female university students is reported, using the Eating Attitude Test (EAT) and the Crown Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI). Eleven per cent of the 156 female respondents but none of 120 males scored above 30 on the EAT, thereby declaring eating attitudes comparable to anorexic subjects. Of those interviewed, none fulfilled diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, but half showed eating disorder of clinical severity. There was a clear association between high EAT scores and higher scores on all the subscales of the CCEI except the phobic scale. The results are discussed in relation to ideas about the possible origins of clinical eating disorders.

Can personality traits, obesity, depression, anxiety, and quality of life explain the association between migraine and disordered eating attitudes?

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (9) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet HAMAMCI ◽  
Özgül KARASALAN ◽  
Levent Ertuğrul İNAN
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Disordered Eating Attitudes

ABSTRACT Background: Few studies have explored the coexistence of migraine and disordered eating attitudes. Furthermore, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of migraine and disordered eating attitude comorbidity are not clearly understood. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the association between migraine and disordered eating attitudes in relation to personality traits, obesity, quality of life, migraine severity, depression, and anxiety. Methods: This study included 91 patients with episodic migraine and 84 healthy control subjects. Self-report questionnaires were used to evaluate anxiety, depression, migraine-related disability, personality traits, quality of life, and eating disorders. Results: The Eating Attitude Test (EAT) showed disordered eating attitudes in 21 patients (23.1%) in the migraine group and eight patients (9.5%) in the control group. Migraine-related disability, anxiety, depression, neuroticism, and quality of life scores were significantly worse in migraine patients with disordered eating attitudes compared to migraine patients without disordered eating attitudes. In migraine patients, eating attitude test scores were positively correlated with migraine-related disability, anxiety, depression, and neuroticism scores, and negatively correlated with quality of life scores. Conclusion: The association of migraine and disordered eating attitudes was shown to be related to depression, anxiety, quality of life and personality traits and may also indicate a more clinically severe migraine. To the best of our knowledge, there is no literature study that deals with all these relevant data together. However, neuropsychiatry-based biological studies are required to better understand this multifaceted association.

Nutritional status, Healthy Eating Index and eating attitudes of the adolescents in Istanbul: a cross-sectional study

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Binnur Okan Bakir ◽  
Hulya Akan ◽  
Mehmet Akman ◽  
Oguzhan Zahmacioglu ◽  
Osman Hayran
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Healthy Eating Index ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Quality Diet ◽  
Eat 26

Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate dietary quality of adolescents by using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and to assess their eating attitudes by the EAT-26 Eating Attitude Test. Methods: Eight schools; four primary schools and four secondary schools were randomly selected from the school list of official website of Istanbul Education National Directorate. Five hundred and ninety-eight students who met the inclusion criteria included in the study, 24 h dietary recalls were collected to calculate their HEI scores and eating attitudes were evaluated by EAT-26 Eating Attitude Test. Their weight, height and waist circumference were measured. Results: According to HEI scores, only two (0.3%) of adolescents had high quality diet, 379 (63.4%) had diet quality that needed improvement and 217 (36.3%) had poor diet. Regarding Eating Attitude Test scores, 513 (85.8%) had normal attitudes regarding eating behaviors. Conclusion: Almost all of the participants need either development or major changes in their eating behaviors. Interventions aiming high quality diet among adolescents are strongly recommended.

Validation of the Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test in Lebanon: a population study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chadia Haddad ◽  
Chloe Khoury ◽  
Pascale Salameh ◽  
Hala Sacre ◽  
Rabih Hallit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Eat 26 ◽  
Disordered Eating Attitudes

Abstract Objectives: To validate an Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) and identify factors (such as depression, stress, anxiety and body dissatisfaction) that might be associated with disordered eating among a sample of the Lebanese population. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: All Lebanese governorates. Participants: A total of 811 participants randomly selected participated in this 5-month study (January–May 2018). Results: The EAT-26 scale items converged over a solution of six factors that had an eigenvalue over 1, explaining a total of 60·07 % of the variance (Cronbach’s α = 0·895). The prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 23·8 %. Higher EAT-26 scores (disordered eating attitudes) were significantly associated with higher depression (β = 0·325), higher emotional eating (β = 0·083), daily weighing (β = 3·430), higher physical activity (β = 0·05), starving to reduce weight (β = 4·94) and feeling pressure from TV/magazine to lose weight (β = 3·95). Conclusions: The Arabic version of EAT-26 can be a useful instrument for screening and assessing disordered eating attitudes in clinical practice and research. Some factors seem to be associated with more disordered eating attitudes among participants for whom psychological counseling may be needed. Yet, our findings are considered preliminary, and further studies are warranted to confirm them.

Actitudes alimentarias de estudiantes universitarias brasileñas con conductas de riesgo en desorden alimentario

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Marle Dos Santos Alvarenga ◽  
Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi ◽  
Sonia Tucunduva Philippi
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Eat 26 ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;" lang="ES-MX">Las actitudes alimentarias pueden ser definidas como creencias, pensamientos, sentimientos, comportamientos y relación con la comida. Conductas alimentarias disfuncionales y comportamientos de riesgo para trastornos de la alimentación pueden presentarse en la población joven femenina – como en estudiantes universitarios - y ambos pueden impactar su calidad de vida. Objetivo: Este estudio evaluó las actitudes alimentarias en una muestra de estudiantes universitarias en Brasil con comportamientos de riesgo para trastornos alimentarios y examino la correlación entre actitudes alimentarias y comportamientos de riesgo para trastornos de la conducta alimentaria. Método: Estudiantes en Brasil del sexo femenino, 2489, respondieron al “</span><span style="color: black;">Disordered Eating Attitude Scale</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;" lang="ES-MX"> (DEAS) - para evaluar actitudes alimentarías - y al “</span><span style="color: black;">Eating Attitude Test</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;" lang="ES-MX">” (EAT-26). Aquellas que tuvieron puntuación ≥ 21 en el EAT-26 fueron definidas como EAT+ (con comportamientos de riesgo para trastornos alimentarios). Las puntuaciones de DEAS (totales y sus cinco sub-escalas) de estudiantes EAT+ fueron comparados con las puntuaciones de DEAS con estudiantes con EAT- (sin comportamientos de riesgo para trastornos alimentarios) utilizando la prueba “<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">t</em> Student”.  La correlación de los DEAS (total y sus cinco sub-escalas) y las puntuaciones EAT-26 fueron evaluadas utilizando el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson. Resultados: De la muestra total 26.1% presentó comportamiento de riesgo para trastornos de alimentación y los estudiantes EAT+ presentaron peores actitudes alimentarías (puntuación DEAS 80.2 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 18.4) que los estudiantes EAT- (puntuación DEAS 59.0 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 11.8). Puntuaciones EAT-26 estuvieron correlacionadas positivamente con las puntuaciones DEAS. Conclusión: La población de estudiantes femeninas Brasileñas con riesgo de desarrollo de un trastorno de la alimentación presentó peores creencias, sentimientos, comportamientos y relación con la comida. Se puede decir que evaluar actitudes alimentarías e intervenir apropiadamente en intervenciones nutricionales y de salud pueden ayudar a prevenir comportamientos de trastornos alimentarios.</span></span></span></p>

Alexithymia in a Clinical Sample of Obese Women

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Morosin ◽  
G. Riva
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Obese Subjects

The purpose was to examine the rate of alexithymia as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a clinical sample of obese women without Binge Eating Disorder. Subjects included 165 inpatients in an eating disorder unit and 135 normal-weight individuals (comparison group). The obese subjects also completed a series of tests including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, and the Eating Attitude Test. Analysis showed that the subgroups of obese persons differ in important ways and cannot necessarily be treated, studied, or understood through a single paradigm. Alexithymic behaviour, too, was not characteristic of obesity, but it was present only in the subgroup of subjects with psychopathological characteristics.

scholarly journals Correlation of Body Perceptions and Eating Disorders of 9-12 years old Children in Bratislava

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Róbert Osaďan ◽  
Erika Drgoňová
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Young People ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Survey Sample ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Body Perceptions

Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate children in Bratislava, Slovakia. The survey sample consisted of 276 children aged 9 -12 who were tested using the Children’s Eating Attitude Test as a diagnostic tool for testing young people, who show a proclivity towards having eating issues, a possibility of anorexia, or a possible problem with bulimic tendencies. The study analyses the components of the test and the scores of children to whom it was administered, and come to conclusions as to its usefulness in diagnosing eating issues in children between grades 4 and 6. It also examines the comparisons between the children in Slovakia and the children in Australian studies in order to see if the scores correlate and what similarities and differences are present between the two groups studied.

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