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ArticleNutrients2022

The Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale May Be Simplified and Diagnostically Improved: The Same Prevalence but Different Severity and Risk Factors of Food Addiction among Female and Male Students.

Edyta Charzyńska, Anna Brytek-Matera, Paweł A Atroszko

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A meta-analysis assessing reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for compulsive eating and obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Edyta CharzyńskaFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9375-1433
Anna Brytek-MateraEating Behavior Laboratory (EAT Lab), Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, 50-527 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5178-371X
Paweł A AtroszkoInstitute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk, Bażyńskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5707-3882
University of Gdańsk · PLUniversity of Silesia in Katowice · PLUniversity of Wrocław · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is the most commonly used scale for measuring food addiction (FA). The previous approach to the YFAS and its subsequent versions assumed dichotomization of items, separating addiction symptoms and clinical significance items, and factorial validity testing on a subset of items. In this paper, we discuss the drawbacks associated with these procedures. In addition, we present a different analytical approach to investigate the validity of the modified YFAS (mYFAS) along with an alternative scoring method that overcomes limitations related to the previous approach. After establishing the structure of the mYFAS, we investigated the potential antecedents and consequences of FA separately for men and women. The sample consisted of 1182 Polish undergraduate students (613 women, 559 men, 10 missing values on gender) with a mean age of 20.33 years (

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Food AddictionAdultFeeding BehaviorFemaleHumansMalePrevalencePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsRisk FactorsStudentsSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adultaddictionsfood addictiongender differencesmeasurement invariancepersonalityprevalencethe modified Yale Food Addiction Scalevaliditywell-being

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