Psychometric Properties of the German Translated Version and Adaptation of the Food Craving Inventory.

ABSTRACT: Dysfunctional eating behavior is a major risk factor for developing all sorts of eating disorders. Food craving is a concept that may help to understand better why and how these and other eating disorders become chronic conditions through non homeastatically-driven mechanisms. As obesity affects people worldwide, cultural differences must be acknowledged to apply proper therapeutic strategies. In this work, we adapted the Food Craving Inventory (FCI) to the German population. We performed a factor analysis of an adaptation of the original FCI in a sample of 326 men and women. We could replicate the factor structure of the FCI on a German population. The factor extraction procedure produced a factor solution that reproduces the four factors described in the original inventory, the FCI. Our

SUBMITTER: Tarragon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423968 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature