ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
French validation of the addiction-like eating behavior scale and its clinical implication.
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- Associations of addiction-like eating with personal relative deprivation, compensatory health beliefs, and body mass index from the life history perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Reliability and validity of the Addiction-Like eating behavior scale (AEBS) in a Peruvian adolescent population.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Similarities and Differences in Diagnostic Scales.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Article
- Exploration of Food Attitudes and Management of Eating Behavior from a Psycho-Nutritional Perspective.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Validity of the Addiction-like Eating Behavior Scale among Patients with Compulsive Eating.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Food addiction and dietary restraint in postpartum women: The role of childhood trauma exposure and postpartum depression.Appetite · 2023Article
- Evaluating Bidirectional Predictive Pathways between Dietary Restraint and Food Addiction in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Addiction-like Eating in Chinese Adults: An Assessment Tool and Its Associations with Modern Eating-Related Habits.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe first conception of food addiction (FA) as substance addiction, measured by the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), is controversial. Some proposed that FA would be better conceptualized with a behavioral approach. In accordance with this conceptualization, Ruddock and colleagues published a new self-reported scale for food addiction, the Addiction-like Eating Behavior Scale (AEBS). Overall, preliminary validation of the scale demonstrated good psychometric properties with a community sample. The aim of the present study is twofold, to validate the French-Canadian version of the AEBS with a community sample and to examine how well the instrument fits into a clinical sample with overweight/obesity.
methodsA community sample (N = 466) and a clinical sample with overweight/obesity seeking help for their eating difficulties (N = 126) completed an online survey regarding FA, binge eating, dietary restraint, depression, and BMI. Factor analysis, internal consistency, and construct validity were assessed.
resultsWith the community sample, factorial structure, and psychometric properties of the AEBS were replicated. With the clinical sample, proper convergent validity was demonstrated with the YFAS 2.0 and binge eating, and proper divergent validity was demonstrated with dietary restraint. Among the clinical sample, AEBS explain similar variance of BMI and depression level when compared to YFAS 2.0.
conclusionThis study provided evidence that the French-Canadian version of the AEBS is a valid measure of food addiction, but it did not permit to establish advantages over YFAS 2.0 with a clinical sample. Clinical implications of the AEBS and FA characteristic are discussed. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional, descriptive study.
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