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The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) for assessment of restrained, emotional, and external eating behavior
Author(s) -
van Strien Tatjana,
Frijters Jan E. R.,
Bergers Gerard P. A.,
Defares Peter B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198602)5:2<295::aid-eat2260050209>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - emotional eating , psychology , cronbach's alpha , eating behavior , internal consistency , food craving , disordered eating , consistency (knowledge bases) , developmental psychology , psychometrics , eating disorders , clinical psychology , obesity , addiction , psychiatry , mathematics , craving , medicine , geometry
The development of the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) with scales for restrained, emotional, and external eating is described. Factor analyses have shown that all items on restrained and external eating each have high loadings on one factor, but items on emotional eating have two dimensions, one dealing with eating in response to diffuse emotions, and the other with eating in response to clearly labelled emotions. The pattern of corrected item‐total correlation coefficients and of the factors was very similar for various subsamples, which indicates a high degree of stability of dimensions on the eating behavior scales. The norms and Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the scales and also the Pearson's correlation coefficients to assess interrelationships between scales indicate that the scales have a high internal consistency and factorial validity. However, their external validity has yet to be investigated.