ArticleJournal of eating disorders2023
Food addiction and its relationship with other eating behaviours among Spanish university students.
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- 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 · 2025Pooled it
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- Anthropometric, Nutritional, and Lifestyle Factors Involved in Predicting Food Addiction: An Agnostic Machine Learning Approach.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The association between food addiction, eating attitudes, self-esteem, and emotional appetite: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Reliability and validity of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) in a sample of individuals with depressive disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Confirmatory factor analysis and gender invariance of Persian version of the modified Yale food addiction scale (mPYFAS) 2.0: insight from a large scale Iranian sample.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Food addiction and the physical and mental health status of adults with overweight and obesity.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Relationship Between BMI, Self-Rated Depression, and Food Addiction-A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults in Postpandemic Poland.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Associations of Food Addiction Symptomatology and Disordered Eating Behaviors in a Pre-Surgical Bariatric Population.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundFood addiction (FA) is characterised by symptoms such as loss of control over food consumption, inability to reduce consumption despite the desire to do so, and continued consumption despite negative consequences. The modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) is a widely used instrument to assess FA.
objectivesTo validate the Spanish mYFAS 2.0; to analyse the relationships between FA with other eating behaviours, sociodemographic variables, and Body Mass Index (BMI); and to test the eating-related variables that account for the variance in FA.
methodsThe sample consisted of 400 university students (M
resultsA confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the one-factor structure of the mYFAS 2.0. The scale showed good internal consistency (α = .78), and good convergent validity with the mYFAS. FA was related to eating styles, binge eating, and bulimia. No differences in FA were observed between males and females, and there was no association between FA and BMI. In addition, younger participants scored higher on FA than older participants. The eating-related variables explain 54.7% of the variance in FA.
conclusionsThe mYFAS 2.0 is a valid and reliable scale to assess FA in the Spanish population. The positive and significant relationship of variables related to eating (eating styles, binge eating and bulimia) with FA was demonstrated. These variables were indicated by those at high risk of FA.
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