Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Norms for the Portuguese Population

Machado, Paulo P. P.; Martins, Carla; Vaz, Ana; Conceição, Eva; Pinto-Bastos, Ana; Gonçalves, Sónia

doi:10.1002/erv.2318

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“…In this way, many adolescents may believe that by reaching a thinner body (e.g., by controlling their eating behaviours) they will become closer to ideal body image patterns and thus more accepted and valued by others [11,15]. In fact, our results indicated that adolescent girls present more unfavourable social comparisons with peers based on physical appearance in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 comparison to other samples of adult women [15], and similar levels of eating psychopathology scores to those found in young women [41]. It is important to note that 6.64% of the current female adolescent sample's scores revealed severe eating psychopathology (EDE-Q > 4; [42,43]).…”

Section: It Is Increasingly Recognized That Adolescence Is a Criticalmentioning

confidence: 56%

Normative body dissatisfaction and eating psychopathology in teenage girls: the impact of inflexible eating rules

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Purpose: Adolescence has been considered a critical time for the development of body image-related difficulties and disordered eating behaviours, especially in females. Although adherence to eating rules has been linked to disordered eating, literature has not yet explored how the inflexible subscription to those rules impacts on eating psychopathology. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to explore whether inflexible eating impacts on the relationships between weight and body image-related variables, and disordered eating.Methods: Participated in this study 497 female adolescents from the community, aged between 14 and 18 years old, who completed self-report measures.Results: Results revealed that the majority of the participants were dissatisfied with their weight and body shape. Moreover, 6.64% of the participants demonstrated severe eating psychopathology. A path analysis revealed that BMI, body dissatisfaction and social comparisons based on physical appearance impact on disordered eating behaviours, through the mechanism of inflexible adherence to eating rules. This model explained 52% of eating psychopathology's variance. Conclusions:Findings highlight the relevance of body image-related difficulties in adolescence and additionally they emphasise the importance of promoting more flexible attitudes towards eating in prevention and intervention programs with female adolescents.

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Section: It Is Increasingly Recognized That Adolescence Is a Criticalmentioning

confidence: 56%

Normative body dissatisfaction and eating psychopathology in teenage girls: the impact of inflexible eating rules

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“…In this study, we only used the global EDE-Q score, obtained by calculating the mean of the four subscale scores. EDE-Q demonstrated good psychometric properties (α = .94, for both the original [44] and the Portuguese versions [45]). [46,47].…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The PSPS-BI showed good psychometric characteristics in the original study [Ferreira et al, 2015], with a high level of internal consistency (α = .88). [44,45]. The EDE-Q is a self-report measure developed in the interest of overcoming the limitations of the Eating Disorder Examination interview.…”

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Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Marta‐Simões

Ferreira

2015

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Shame feelings often lead individuals to adopt compensatory mechanisms, such as the minimization of the public display or disclosure of mistakes and the active promotion of perfect qualities, conceptualized as perfectionistic self-presentation. Although perfectionism is considered a central characteristic of disordered eating, the investigation on the specific domain of body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation and on its relationship with psychopathology is still scarce.The main aim of the present study was exploring the moderator effect of body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation on the associations of shame with depressive symptomatology, and with eating psychopathology, in a sample of 487 women.Results revealed that body image-related perfectionistic self-presentation showed a significant moderator effect on the relationships of external shame with depressive symptomatology, and with eating psychopathology severity, exacerbating shame's impact on this psychopathological indices. These findings appear to offer important clinical and investigational implications, highlighting the maladaptive character of such body image-focused strategies.

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“…The Portuguese version of the 5th edition of the EDE-Q [29] was used to assess participants along a continuum of disordered eating. It consists of a self-report with 28 items rated on a 7-point Likert scale and grouped into four subscales (restraint, eating concern, shape concern, and weight concern).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The average result represents a global score [28]. For this sample, internal consistency for the global score was a = 0.92, slightly lower than for the Portuguese population (a = 0.95; [29]). …”

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Individual and relational risk factors for the development of eating disorders in adolescent aesthetic athletes and general adolescents

2013

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This study compared potential risk and protective factors, levels of disordered eating (DE), and their relationship among young aesthetic athletes (elite and nonelite) and controls (N = 725; 62.5 % females; mean age = 15.3, SD = 2.1). The participants completed selfreport measures (McKnight Risk Factor Survey-IV, Contour Drawing Rating Scale and Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire). Female elite athletes showed a greater risk of developing eating disorders than non-elite athletes and controls, with no difference between the three groups of males. Multiple group analyses revealed important differences in DE predictors. Although social pressure is the strongest DE predictor in non-elite athletes and controls, in elite athletes, the strongest DE predictor is body image dissatisfaction. Parental influences, rather than self-esteem, are predictors of DE in elite athletes, unlike the other two groups. These results show that the risk and protective factors involved in the development of DE are not universally valid. The results highlight the importance of studying specific characteristics associated with DE in aesthetic athletes. Some implications for ED risk assessment and prevention are discussed.

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Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Norms for the Portuguese Population

Abstract: Results will help both researchers and clinicians interpreting the EDE-Q scores and to establish comparison with data produced in different countries.

Cited by 145 publications

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Normative body dissatisfaction and eating psychopathology in teenage girls: the impact of inflexible eating rules

Normative body dissatisfaction and eating psychopathology in teenage girls: the impact of inflexible eating rules

Seeking a perfect body look: feeding the pathogenic impact of shame?

Individual and relational risk factors for the development of eating disorders in adolescent aesthetic athletes and general adolescents

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