Validity evidence for eating attitudes test scores in a sample of female college athletes

Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-49

  Doninger, Gretchen L ^a   Enders, Craig K ^b   Burnett, Kent F ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

EAT 26; Eating Attitudes Test; Eating disorders; Factor analysis

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA ATHLETICA; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMETER; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 14744270412     PISSN: 1091367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327841mpee0901_3     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Bentler, P. M. (1990). Comparative fit indexes in structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 238-246.
3. Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equations with latent variables. New York: Wiley.
4. Brownell, K. D., Rodin, J., & Wilmore, J. H. (1992). Eating, body weight, and performance in athletes: Disorders of modern society. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger.
5. Burkes-Miller, M. E., & Black, D. R. (1988). Male and female college athletes: Prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Athletic Training, 23, 137-140.
6. Cattanach, L., Phil, M., Malley R., & Rodin, J. (1988). Psychological and physiological reactivity to stressors in eating disordered individuals. Psychosomatic Medicine, 50, 591-599.
7. Enders, C. K., & Bandalos, D. L. (2001). The relative performance of full information maximum likelihood estimation for missing data in structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling, 8, 430-457.
8. Finney, S., & DeStefano, C. (in press). Dealing with nonnormality and categorical data in structural equation modeling. In G. R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.), A second course in structural equation modeling. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
9. Garner, D. M. (1991). Eating Disorders Inventory-2 manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
10. Garner, D. M., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1979). The Eating Attitudes Test: An index of symptoms of anorexia nervosa. Psychological Medicine, 9, 273-279.
11. Garner, D. M., Olmsted, M. P., Bohr, Y., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1982). The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine, 12, 871-878.
12. Hart, K. J., & Ollendick, T. H. (1985). Prevalence of bulimia in working and university women. American Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 851-854.
13. Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55.
14. Johnson, C., Powers, P. S., & Dick, R. (1999). Athletes and eating disorders: The National Collegiate Athletic Association study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 26, 179-188.
15. Koslowsky, M., Scheinberg, Z., Bleich, A., Mark, M., Apter, A., Danon, Y., et al. (1992). The factor structure and criterion validity of the short form of the Eating Attitudes Test. Journal of Personality Assessment, 58, 27-35.
16. Levenkron, S. (2000). Anatomy of anorexia. New York: Norton.
17. Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis with applications. Biometrika, 57, 519-530.
18. Mitchell, J. E., Pomeroy, C., & Adson, D. E. (1997). Managing medical complications. In D. M. Garner and P. E. Garfinkel (Eds.), Handbook of treatment for eating disorders (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford.
19. Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2001). Mplus user's guide (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Author.
20. Petrie, T.A. (1996). Differences between male and female college lean sport athletes, nonlean sport athletes and nonathletes on behavioral and psychological indices of eating disorders. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 8, 218-230.
21. Powers, P. S., & Johnson, C. (1996). Small victories: Prevention of eating disorders among athletes. Eating Disorders: Prevention and Treatment, 4, 364-377.
22. Rosen, L. W., McKeag, D. B., Hough, D. O., & Curley, V. (1986). Pathogenic weight-control behavior in female athletes. The Physician and Sport medicine, 14(1), 79-86.
23. Rutt, C. D., & Coleman, K. J. (2001). The evaluation of a measurement model for the body image questionnaire and the Eating Attitudes Test in a Hispanic population. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 23, 153-170.
24. Satorra, A., & Bentler, P. M. (1994). Corrections to test statistics and standard errors in covariance structure analysis. In A. von Eye and C. C. Clogg (Eds.), Latent variable analysis: Applications to developmental research (pp. 399-419). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
25. Schwartz, G. (1978). Estimating the dimension of a model. The Annals of Statistics, 6, 461-464.
26. Shisslack, C., & Crago, M. (1994). Toward a new model of the prevention of eating disorders. In P. Fallon, M. Katzman, and S. Wooley (Eds.), Feminist perspectives on eating disorders (pp. 53-76). New York: Guilford.
27. Stoutjesdyk, D., & Jevne, R. (1993). Eating disorders among high performance athletes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 22(3), 271-282.
28. Sundgot-Borgen, J. (1993). Prevalence of eating disorders in elite female athletes. International Journal of Sport Nutrition, 3, 29-40.
29. Sundgot-Borgen, J. (1994). Risk and trigger factors for the development of eating disorders in the female elite athlete. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 26, 414-419.
30. Sundgot-Borgen, J., & Corbin, C. B. (1987). Eating disorders among female athletes. The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 15(2), 89-95.
31. Thompson, R. A., & Sherman, R. T. (1993). Helping athletes with eating disorders. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
32. Warren, B. J., Stanton, A. L., & Blessing, D. L. (1990). Disordered eating patterns in competitive female athletes. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 565-569.
33. Wilmore, J. H. (1991). Eating and weight disorders in the female athlete. International Journal of Sport Nutrition, 1, 104-117.
34. Zucker, N. L., Womble, L. G., Williamson, D. A., & Perrin, L. A. (1999). Protective factors for eating disorders in female college athletes. Eating Disorders: The Prevention and Treatment, 7, 207-21