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First published on February 29, 2008, doi:10.1177/1073191107312651
Assessment 2008;15:375.
A more recent version of this article appeared on September 1, 2008
Clinical Validation of the Trait and State Versions of the Food Craving Questionnaire
Silvia Moreno1,
Sonia Rodríguez1,
Mari Carmen Fernandez1,
Jeannine Tamez2,
and
Antonio Cepeda-Benito2*
1 University of Granada
2 Texas A&M University
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: acb{at}tamu.edu.
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Abstract |
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This is the first study to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T), and Food Craving Questionnaire–State (FCQ-S) measures using a clinically heterogeneous sample of eating disorder patients (N = 177) recruited from seven different outpatient eating disorder treatment centers in Spain. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) corroborated the factor structures of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S. The measures scores and their factor-derived scale–scores yielded internal consistency reliability indexes that ranged from adequate to excellent. The measures were predictive of eating disorder symptoms. As expected, the FCQ-T was more strongly associated with eating disorder psychopathology than the FCQ-S. The results replicated the psychometric properties of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S in eating disorder populations and could become useful tools in clinical and research settings.

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