Development and validation of a weight-related eating questionnaire

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-124

  Schembre, Susan ^a   Greene, Geoffrey ^a   Melanson, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Dietary measures; Eating behaviors; Questionnaire; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DIET RESTRICTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETABLE; WEIGHT RELATED EATING QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549147975     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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