Validity of the Eating Attitudes Test: A study of Mexican eating disorders patients

Álvarez-Rayón, Georgina; Díaz, Juan Manuel Mancilla; Arévalo, Rosalía Vázquez; Unikel-Santoncini, Claudia; Caballero-Romo, Alejandro de Jesús; Mercado-Corona, D.

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“…49,50 However, placement in the ''at-risk'' category should still be interpreted with some caution. The specificity of the EAT-40 varies with the sample being tested, with some studies finding the EAT-40 to have low false positive rates for eating disorders and other research questioning its specificity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…48 The EAT-40 also has been shown to differentiate between eating disorder patients and non-patients in a Mexico City sample. 49,50 The current study utilized a more conservative cutoff score of 30 to indicate significant eating concerns, despite some evidence that a slightly lower cutoff score of 28 may be appropriate with Mexican female samples. 49,50 The reliability of this measure with the current sample was adequate (Cronbach's alpha of 0.83).…”

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Thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls: A test of the sociocultural model of eating disorders

Austin

Smith

2008

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls: A test of the sociocultural model of eating disorders

Austin

Smith

2008

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…EAT-26 is one of the most widely used self-report measures for evaluating eating attitudes and behaviors. Several studies demonstrated acceptable factor structure, concurrent validity, and reliability of various versions of the EAT-26 among Western cultures (32,33). Nobakht and Dezhkam (34) reported satisfactory internal consistency and test-retest reliability among adolescent Iranian girls.…”

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Impact of Subliminal Activation of Abandonment Schema on the Eating Behavior of Obese and Normal Weight Women: An Experimental Study

Mohammadkhani

Moloodi

Fatemi

2017

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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Background: Schema focused cognitive-behavioral model proposed that patients with eating disorders (EDs) used bulimic behaviors in order to avoid or suppress negative affects that are triggered by early maladaptive schemas. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to compare normal weight and obese women in terms of the effect of the activation of abandonment schema. Patients and Methods: This was a 2-stage approach experimental study. In the first, 81 women (41 normal weight and 40 obese) completed the eating disorder examination questionnaire (EDE-Q) and eating attitude test-26 (EAT-26). In the second, 1 week later, all participants were randomly exposed to subliminal abandonment stimuli (experimental group) or subliminal neutral stimuli (control group). The subliminal abandonment stimuli was the word loneliness and the neutral stimuli was the word gallery. Each word was presented on a visual screen for 2 milliseconds (ms). Then, the participants were instructed that they were able to eat pistachios provided by the experimenter. The weight of consumed food was recorded as the dependent variable. Results: Both obese and normal weight women exposed to abandonment themes (loneliness) consumed significantly more food than their counterparts exposed to neutral stimuli. The univariate analysis of covariance indicated that normal weight women in the control group did not differ from obese women in the control group on the amount of consumed pistachios after controlling EDE-Q , EAT-26, and body mass index (BMI). Moreover, the univariate analysis of covariance showed that the amount of food consumed by normal weight women in the experimental condition and obese women in the experimental group did not differ when BMI, EDE-Q , and EAT-26 were controlled. Conclusions: These results provide indirect support for schemata based theory of eating disorders. In other words, abandonment themes activate eating behaviors that presumably serve to avoid negative emotions.

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“…Al momento de su construcción (Garner & Garfinkel, 1979) se obtuvo una confiabilidad de .79 para las mujeres anoréxicas y de .94 para la muestra total. Según su validación en población mexicana (Álvarez-Rayón et al, 2004), el instrumento evalúa cinco dimensiones: Restricción alimentaria (α=.88), Bulimia (α=.87), Impulso hacia la delgadez (α=.85), Preocupación por la comida (α=.77) y Presión social percibida (α=.76).…”

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Adaptación del Inventario de Esquemas sobre la Apariencia-Revisado (ASI-R) para Población de Habla Hispana

Silva¹,

Cruz²,

Rosales³

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Rev. Iberoam. Diagn. Eval.-Aval. P.

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ResumenOtorgar una importancia excesiva a la apariencia física puede convertirse en un factor de riesgo para desarrollar actitudes y conductas poco saludables, por lo que es necesario contar con un instrumento válido y confiable que la evalúe. El objetivo de este trabajo fue adaptar el Appearance Schemas Inventory (ASI-R) desarrollado por Cash, Melnyk & Hrabosky (2004a) para población de habla hispana, para lo cual participaron 579 jóvenes con edades entre 17 y 28 años. Los resultados muestran que la consistencia interna del instrumento es adecuada (α=.920), lo mismo que la de sus dos factores, Importancia Autoevaluativa (α=.891) e Importancia Motivacional (α=.864), que en conjunto explican el 55.0% de la varianza. Se concluye que el instrumento adaptado es apropiado para evaluar a jóvenes mexicanos.Palabras clave: apariencia física, autoesquemas de la apariencia, actitudes AbstractThe importance given to the physical appearance may be a risk factor for unhealthy attitudes and behaviors, so it is necessary to have a valid and reliable instrument to assess it. The aim of this study was to adapt the Appearance Schemas Inventory (ASI-R) developed by Cash, Melnyk & Hrabosky (2004a), for the Spanish speaking population. 579 young men and women aged between 17 and 28 years participated. The results show that the internal consistency of the instrument is adequate (α=.920), as did its two factors, Self-assessed Significance (α=.891) and Motivational Significance (α=.864), and together account for 55.0% of the variance. We conclude that the adapted instrument is appropriate for evaluating young Mexicans.

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Validity of the Eating Attitudes Test: A study of Mexican eating disorders patients

Abstract: This study provides evidence that the Mexican version of the EAT is an economical, reliable and potentially useful instrument for research in this field.

Cited by 34 publications

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Thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls: A test of the sociocultural model of eating disorders

Thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls: A test of the sociocultural model of eating disorders

Impact of Subliminal Activation of Abandonment Schema on the Eating Behavior of Obese and Normal Weight Women: An Experimental Study

Adaptación del Inventario de Esquemas sobre la Apariencia-Revisado (ASI-R) para Población de Habla Hispana

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