The Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and relationship to dimensions of eating

Appetite

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 499-505

  Müller, Jochen ^a   Dettmer, Dorothee ^a   Macht, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire; Eating behavior; Factor analysis; Validity

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDES TO CHOCOLATE QUESTIONNAIRE; CACAO; EATING HABIT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GUILT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PALATABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; SWEETNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CACAO; EATING; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749143856     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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