Table 1.

Relationships and Comparisons to Treatment Peers Scale

Relationships to and Identification with Treatment Peers Subscale

1. It’s easier for me to talk to my treatment peers than to most others in my life.

2. I miss being surrounded by peers in treatment who accepted me.

3. I feel that the friends I met in treatment were some of the strongest friendships I’ve ever made.

4. I find it hard to connect with my peers who have not had an eating disorder.

5. My treatment peers understand me more than others in my life.

General Comparison to Treatment Peers Subscale

6. I compare my body shape to that of my treatment peers.

7. I find myself thinking about how my eating (e.g., food choices, amount eaten) compares with the eating of my treatment peers.

8. I find myself thinking about how my exercise level compares to that of my treatment peers.

Negative Comparisons to Treatment Peers on Facebook Subscale

9. I spend time looking at pictures of people from treatment on Facebook, trying to see if they’ve gained or lost weight.

10. I pay attention to whether or not I am as thin as, or thinner, than my treatment peers based on their pictures on Facebook.

11. I pay close attention when I see my treatment peers posting about exercise on Facebook (in order to see how the amount they exercise compares to the amount I exercise).

12. I pay close attention when I see my treatment peers posting about things they ate on Facebook (in order to determine how my eating habits compare to theirs).

13. When I think that someone from treatment has lost weight based on their Facebook pictures, it makes my eating disorder feel competitive.

14. I compare my progress in treatment to that of my treatment peers.

Positive Interaction with Treatment peers on Facebook Subscale

15. I find myself “checking in” with people from treatment on Facebook to see how they are doing.

16. My peers from treatment motivated me to make progress in my recovery.

17. I ask my treatment peers for their advice on Facebook that I am too embarrassed to ask in person.

18. Looking at my treatment peers’ Facebook pages has spurred me to take positive steps to further my recovery.

Note. Items are rated on a 1–7 scale with the following anchors: strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat agree, agree, and strongly agree, and item responses are summed to create subscale scores.