Two self-report questionnaires designed to tap into problematic attitudes common in eating disorders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original questionnaire (EAT-40) had 40 items and was described in Garner, D. M., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1979). The Eating Attitudes Test: An index of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa<\/em>. Psychological Medicine, 9, 273\u2013279. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0033291700030762<\/a> (paywall). A later paper Garner, D. M., Olmstead, M. P., Bohr, Y., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1982). The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates<\/em>. Psychological Medicine, 12, 871\u2013878. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0033291700049163<\/a>; paywall) gave more information and introduced a short form, the EAT-26. Scoring on both measures is the same for all items with six response levels scored 0-0-0-1-2-3 and the score is the total of the items’ scores. Both have three scales derived from exploratory factor analysis. The subscales are labelled: “dieting”, “bulimia and food preoccupation” and “oral control”. The measures are free to use unaltered. See https:\/\/www.eat-26.com\/permission\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exploratory factor analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mentioned in Chapter 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.eat-26.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n First created 11.ii.24, tweaked 31.iii.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two self-report questionnaires designed to tap into problematic attitudes common in eating disorders. Details The original questionnaire (EAT-40) had 40 items and was described in Garner, D. M., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1979). The Eating Attitudes Test: An index of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa. Psychological Medicine, 9, 273\u2013279. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0033291700030762 (paywall). A later paper Garner, … Continue reading Eating attitudes test (EAT)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-3899","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":176,"total_views":"1259","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3899\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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