Children's Eating Attitudes Test: Revised factor structure for adolescent girls

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 222-235

  Lynch, Wesley C ^a   Eppers Reynolds, K ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

CFA; ChEAT; Confirmatory factor analysis; EAT 26; Eating Attitudes Test; EFA; Factor analysis; Psychometrics; Scale development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 33144473044     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03327489     Document Type: Article

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