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. 2023 Oct 2;11:173. doi: 10.1186/s40337-023-00890-0

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