MOHORIĆ, T., POKRAJAC-BULIAN, A., ANIĆ, P., & KUKIĆ, M.
The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Factor structure and convergent validity of the Croatian brief version
The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is one of the most widely used self-reporting methods for assessing the behaviors and attitudes associated with eating disorders. Since recent studies have proposed alternative and shorter forms of the EDE-Q, the aim of this study is to compare the factor structure of the full-length version of the EDE-Q with several proposed models. A total of 600 participants (80.2% women) aged 18 to 52 years participated in the study. Among the four tested models, the abbreviated version of the questionnaire (EDE-Q7) showed the best fit for the data. The total score on the EDE-Q7 was highly correlated with the total score on the EDE-Q28 and the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26), indicating good convergent validity. The findings indicate that the EDE-Q7 is a psychometrically acceptable and effective measure that can be used to assess symptoms of eating disorder behaviors in the Croatian community sample.
Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2023, Vol. 30, pp. 19-30, DOI: 10.4473/TPM30.1.2
