Table 3.

Correlation between Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) and basic characteristics of participants (n 450)

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	YFAS score†,‡
2	YFAS†,§	0·64**
3	YFAS score‡,§	0·92**	0·61**
4	YFAS‡,||	0·65**	0·90**	0·66**
5	BES score‡	0·61**	0·44**	0·57**	0·48**
6	Age‡	–0·05	–0·06	–0·03	–0·00	–0·12
7	Education||	−0·06	–0·03	–0·05	–0·03	0·06	–0·33**
8	BMI‡	0·28**	0·22**	0·28**	−0·27**	0·20*	–0·04	–0.03

BES, Binge Eating Scale.

^** P-value < 0·01.

^* P-value < 0·05.

^†Original twenty-one-item scale.

^‡Pearson correlation.

^§Iranian nineteen-item scale.

^||Spearman correlation.