ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Examining the construct validity of food addiction severity specifiers.
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- 'Do no harm' - the impact of an intervention for addictive eating on disordered eating behaviours in Australian adults: secondary analysis of the TRACE randomised controlled trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Modulating food craving-related neural oscillations using tACS: study protocol for a randomized sham-controlled trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evaluating Bidirectional Predictive Pathways between Dietary Restraint and Food Addiction in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Development of the Hedonic Overeating-Questionnaire (HEDO-Q).Nutrients · 2022Article
- Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Food Addiction and Lifestyle Habits among University Students.Nutrients · 2021Article
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purposeFood addiction (FA) is related to greater body mass index (BMI), eating-disorder psychopathology, food craving, and psychosocial impairment. Less is known regarding the utility of the FA severity specifiers, as measured by the number of symptoms endorsed on the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS 2.0).
methodsParticipants (N = 1854) were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk to complete an online survey on eating behaviors. Participants completed self-report measures assessing FA, eating-disorder psychopathology (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire), and food craving (Food Craving Inventory). Based on the YFAS 2.0 specifiers, participants were classified into four FA groups: No FA (n = 1643), mild (n = 40), moderate (n = 55), and severe (n = 116).
resultsThere were significant differences found in age, sex, BMI, and frequency of objective binge-eating episodes (OBEs) among the FA groups. Using ANCOVA, adjusted for multiple comparisons and covariates (e.g., BMI, sex, OBEs), the No FA group reported significantly lower levels of shape concern (η
conclusionOur findings parallel the severity specifiers literature for eating and substance use disorders by also indicating the limited utility of severity specifiers based on symptom count. Future research should investigate alternative targets for discriminating among levels of FA. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
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