Portuguese validation of the children's eating attitudes test

Teixeira, Maria Del Carmen Bento; Pereira, A.T.; Saraiva, Jorge; Marques, Mariana; Soares, M.J.; Bos, Sandra Carvalho; Valente, J.; Azevedo, Maria Helena Pinto de; Macedo, A.

doi:10.1590/s0101-60832012000600002

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“…17 The ChEAT is rated on a Likert-type scale from 1 (never) to 6 (always). The most symptomatic response is recoded into a score of 3 (always), 2 (usually), or 1 (often).…”

Section: Children Eating Attitudes Test (Cheat)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Teixeira

Pereira

Marques

et al. 2016

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: Eating disorders are an increasingly prevalent health problem among adolescent girls. It is well known that biological, psychosocial, and family-related factors interact in the development of this group of disorders. However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction between these variables are still poorly understood, especially in Portuguese adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between eating behaviors, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and perfectionism in a sample of Portuguese girls. Method: A community sample of 575 Portuguese girls attending secondary school, answered selfreport questionnaires including data on weight, height, and the Portuguese versions of the Contour Figures Rating Scale, the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Children Eating Attitudes Test, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. SPSS version 20.0 for Windows was used for statistical analyses.Results: High scores in the Children Eating Attitudes Test were associated with significantly higher levels of body dissatisfaction (r = 0.339), socially prescribed perfectionism (r = 0.175), self-oriented perfectionism (r = 0.211), and low self-esteem (r = -0.292) (all p o 0.001). Self-oriented perfectionism partially mediated the relation between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors. Conclusion: In this sample, dysfunctional eating behaviors appeared to correlate strongly with body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem, and perfectionism in girls. These themes should be addressed among female adolescents in the community.

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“…17 The ChEAT is rated on a Likert-type scale from 1 (never) to 6 (always). The most symptomatic response is recoded into a score of 3 (always), 2 (usually), or 1 (often).…”

Section: Children Eating Attitudes Test (Cheat)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Teixeira

Pereira

Marques

et al. 2016

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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“…However, sex differences are not a likely explanation; we fit the 5-factor model in boys and girls separately and found the global fit and factor loadings were very similar. Other studies also found only trivial differences in their measurement models when estimated separately for girls and boys (e.g., Teixeira et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…between the ages of 8 and 14(Ambrosi-Randi c & Pokrajac-Bulian, 2005;Chiba et al, 2016;De León, del Consuelo, Ruiz, & Jaime, 2008; Elizathe, Murawski, Arana, & Rutsztein, 2012; Maïano, Morin, Lanfranchi, & Therme, 2013; McEnery, Fitzgerald, McNicholas, & Dooley, 2016; Pilecki, Kowal, Woronkowicz, Kryst, & Sobiecki, 2013; Ranzenhofer et al, 2008; Rojo-Moreno et al, 2011; Sancho, Asorey, Arija, & Canals, 2005; Senra, Seoane, Vilas, & Sánchez-Cao, 2007;Teixeira et al, 2012;Theuwis, Moens, & Braet, 2009). Study characteristics and principal components analysis (PCA) or factor analysis (FA) results fromAnton, Han, et al (2006),Lynch and Eppers-Reynolds (2005), and the 13 new studies are summarized in Supporting Information Table S1, alongside the seminal Garner…”

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Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test

Murphy

Hwang

Kramer

et al. 2019

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective: The Children’s Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) is a self-report questionnaire that is conventionally summarised with a single score to identify ‘problematic’ eating attitudes, masking informative variability in different eating attitude domains. This study evaluated the empirical support for single-versus multifactor models of the ChEAT. For validation, we compared how well the single- versus multifactor-based scores predicted BMI. Method: Using data from 13,674 participants of the 11.5 year-follow-up of the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) in the Republic of Belarus, we conducted confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the performance of 3- and 5-factor models, which were based on past studies, to a single-factor model representing the conventional summary of the ChEAT. We used cross-validated linear regression models and the reduction in mean squared error (MSE) to compare the prediction of BMI at 11.5y and 16y by the conventional and confirmed factor-based ChEAT scores. Results: The 5-factor model, based on 14 of the original 26 ChEAT items, had good fit to the data whereas the 3- and single-factor models did not. The MSE for concurrent (11.5y) BMI regressed on the 5-factor ChEAT summary was 35% lower than that of the single-score models, which reduced the MSE from the null model by only 1–5%. The MSE for BMI at 16y was 20% lower. Discussion: We found that a parsimonious 5-factor model of the ChEAT explained the data collected from healthy Belarusian children better than the conventional summary score and thus provides a more discriminating measure of eating attitudes.

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“…Children's Eating Attitudes Test. 46,47 Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) assesses problematic eating attitudes and behaviors through 26 items answered on a 6-point point Likert scale (1 = never; 6 = always). For the purpose of this study, only the total score was used (McDonald's o for this sample = 0.91).…”

Section: Child Self-report Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal Eating Behavior and Problematic Eating Behaviors of Children Undergoing Weight Loss Treatment: A Cluster Analysis

et al. 2020

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Background: Research on the interplay between mothers' and children's eating behaviors is needed to better inform sensitive and tailored interventions for treatment-seeking children with overweight/obesity. The present study aimed to identify mothers' eating behavior phenotypes, investigating their associations with problematic eating behaviors of children undergoing weight loss treatment in two central hospitals. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study evaluating 136 mother-child dyads (Mothers: age 39.58-5.40 years; Children: n = 75 female; age 10.13-1.37 years). Mothers' eating behavior (restraint, emotional, and uncontrolled eating) and depression/anxiety, and children's problematic eating attitudes/behaviors were assessed. A cluster analysis (K-means) was performed using mothers' eating behavior dimensions. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance investigated differences between clusters on mothers' and children's sociodemographic, anthropometric, psychological, and eating-related variables. Results: Three clusters emerged: The Disordered Eating group (n = 39) of mothers with the highest scores on emotional eating and uncontrolled eating dimensions, the Restraint Eating group (n = 48), including mothers scoring high in cognitive restraint, and the Low Disordered Eating (n = 49) group where mothers scored low in all eating behavior dimensions. Children of mothers in the Disordered Eating cluster had significantly higher emotional overeating relative to children of mothers in the other two clusters. Conclusions: Distinctive eating behavior profiles of mothers, instead of the presence of single eating behaviors, seem to be associated with specific problematic eating behaviors of children undergoing weight loss treatment. Prospective studies are essential to determine whether these profiles can predict differential weight change trajectories in pediatric obesity treatment.

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Portuguese validation of the children's eating attitudes test

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test

Maternal Eating Behavior and Problematic Eating Behaviors of Children Undergoing Weight Loss Treatment: A Cluster Analysis

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