Development and Preliminary Validation of the Salzburg Emotional Eating Scale

Frontiers in Psychology
Adrian MeuleJens Blechert

Abstract

Existing self-report questionnaires for the assessment of emotional eating do not differentiate between specific types of emotionsandbetween increased or decreased food intake in response to these emotions. Therefore, we developed a new measure of emotional eating-the Salzburg Emotional Eating Scale (SEES)-for which higher scores indicate eating more than usual in response to emotions and lower scores indicate eating less than usual in response to emotions. In study 1, a pool of items describing 40 emotional states was used. Factor analysis yielded four factors, which represented both positive (happinesssubscale) and negative emotions (sadness, anger, andanxietysubscales). Subsequently, the scale was reduced to 20 items (5 items for each subscale) and its four-factor structure was replicated in studies 2 and 3. In all three studies, internal consistencies of each subscale were α > 0.70 and mean subscale scores significantly differed from each other such that individuals reported the strongest tendency to eat more than usual when being sad and the strongest tendency to eat less than usual when being anxious (sadness > happiness > anger > anxiety). Higher scores on the happiness subscale related to lower scores on the negative em...Continue Reading

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Jul 28, 2019·Eating Disorders·Adrian MeuleJens Blechert
Jan 11, 2021·The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity·Björn PannickeJens Blechert
Mar 4, 2021·The International Journal of Eating Disorders·Julia ReichenbergerJens Blechert
May 28, 2021·Eating and Weight Disorders : EWD·Emanuele CassioliFrancesco Rotella
Jun 28, 2021·European Eating Disorders Review : the Journal of the Eating Disorders Association·Rebekka SchnepperJens Blechert
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