Table 2.
Standardized loadings from 4-factor EFA and CFA analyses of EAT-26 items
| EFA | CFA | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diet/ carb restriction |
Pressure to eat |
Preoccupation with thinness |
Purging | Diet/ carb restriction |
Pressure to eat |
Preoccupation with thinness |
Purging | |
| 7. Particularly avoid food with a high carbohydrate content (i.e. bread, rice, potatoes, etc.) | 0.77 | − 0.01 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16. Avoid foods with sugar in them | 0.79 | 0.04 | − 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17. Eat diet foods | 0.73 | 0.03 | 0.25 | − 0.01 | 0.80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8. Feel that others would prefer if I ate more | 0.02 | 0.85 | 0.02 | − 0.07 | 0 | 0.83 | 0 | 0 |
| 13. Other people think that I am too thin | − 0.10 | 0.90 | − 0.10 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.87 | 0 | 0 |
| 20. Feel that others pressure me to eat | − 0.03 | 0.81 | 0.26 | − 0.03 | 0 | 0.84 | 0 | 0 |
| 1. Am terrified about being overweight | 0.03 | − 0.03 | 0.89 | − 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0.86 | 0 |
| 11. Am preoccupied with a desire to be thinner | 0.01 | − 0.03 | 0.91 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0.91 | 0 |
| 14. Am preoccupied with the thought of having fat on my body | − 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.93 | − 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0.90 | 0 |
| 10. Feel extremely guilty after eating | − 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.79 | 0.22 | – | – | – | – |
| 12. Think about burning up calories when I exercise | 0.23 | − 0.17 | 0.73 | − 0.01 | – | – | – | – |
| 9. Vomit after I have eaten | 0.08 | 0.15 | − 0.05 | 0.83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.78 |
| 25. Have the impulse to vomit after meals | 0.17 | 0.21 | − 0.01 | 0.82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.07 |
Item wordings are reworded with electronic permission from the original scale by Garner et al. (1987). The remaining EAT-26 items not shown here were included in the EFA analysis, but ultimately excluded from the final factor structure based on the decision-making criteria described in the main manuscript. High standardized factor loadings (≥ .7) are presented in bold text