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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2013 Nov 11;26(1):77–89. doi: 10.1037/a0034729

Table 3.

Frequency Items: Ns, Means and Standard Deviations

Frequency Items N Mean SD
ELOCS 1a. Go out of your way to get food you were craving 164 7.39 6.37
ELOCS 2a. Feel helpless to control eating urges 162 14.46 9.60
ELOCS 3a. Give up control over what you ate BEFORE started to eat 160 8.03 9.26
ELOCS 4a. Give in to an impulse to eat even though not hungry 162 15.62 8.67
ELOCS 5a. Ignore an interruption to keep eating 166 3.43 5.96
ELOCS 7a. Keep eating even though thought should stop 163 17.32 9.19
ELOCS 8a. Eat much more rapidly than normal 163 11.77 10.69
ELOCS 9a. Eat until feel uncomfortably full 167 13.40 9.57
ELOCS10a. Ate large amount of food when not physically hungry 163 17.21 9.39
ELOCS 11a. Feel embarrassed about how much you were eating 164 8.43 9.38
ELOCS 12a. Feel disgusted, depressed, or very guilty while eating 161 14.59 10.56
ELOCS 13a. Afraid of losing control over eating 162 13.02 12.26
ELOCS 14a. Feel driven or compelled to eat 165 15.66 9.72
ELOCS 15a. Hard to stop eating once started 165 13.15 9.48
ELOCS 16a. Give up even trying to control eating 165 13.95 11.19
ELOCS 17a. Feel upset by the feeling that couldn’t stop eating 163 14.61 10.38
ELOCS 18a. Hard to stop thinking about food you were craving 164 11.10 9.00
ELOCS 19a. Feel out of control when eaten an unusually large amount 162 12.78 9.08

Frequency Scale α=0.930 167 12.63 6.31

Note. ELOCS = Eating Loss of Control Scale.