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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 instrument presents high internal consistency, as well as a significant correlation with measures of convergent and discriminant validity. The FCI-Deutsch (FCI-DE) is a valid instrument to assess craving for particular foods in Germany, and it could, therefore, prove useful in the clinical and research practice in the field of obesity and eating behaviors.

SUBMITTER: Tarragon E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5423968 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Tarragon Ernesto E Stein Jakob J Meyer Jobst J

Frontiers in psychology 20170510

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 fact ...[more]

PMID: 28539903

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

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

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