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Psychometric Properties of the German Translated Version and Adaptation of the Food Craving Inventory

  • Dysfunctional eating behavior is a major risk factor for developing all sorts of eating disorders. Food craving is a concept that may help to understand better why and how these and other eating disorders become chronic conditions through non homeastatically-driven mechanisms. As obesity affects people worldwide, cultural differences must be acknowledged to apply proper therapeutic strategies. In this work, we adapted the Food Craving Inventory (FCI) to the German population. We performed a factor analysis of an adaptation of the original FCI in a sample of 326 men and women. We could replicate the factor structure of the FCI on a German population.rnThe factor extraction procedure produced a factor solution that reproduces the fourfactors described in the original inventory, the FCI. Our instrument presents high internal consistency, as well as a significant correlation with measures of convergent and discriminant validity. The FCI-Deutsch (FCI-DE) is a valid instrument to assess craving for particular foods in Germany, and it could, therefore, prove useful in the clinical and research practice in the field of obesity and eating behaviors.

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Author:Ernesto Tarragon, Jakob Stein, Jobst Meyer
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-7678
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00736
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of completion:2017/06/08
Publishing institution:Universität Trier
Contributing corporation:The publication was funded by the Open Access Fund of Universität Trier and the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Release Date:2017/06/08
Tag:eating behavior; factor analysis; obesity; psychometric validation
GND Keyword:Essgewohnheit; Faktorenanalyse; Fettsucht; Lebensmittel; Psychometrie; Validierung; Verlangen
Source:Frontiers in Psychology
Institutes:Fachbereich 1 / Psychologie
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie

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