Table 1.
Factor loadings of the 34-item questionnaire obtained in the principal components analysis
| Communalities | Factor loadings |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EmR | 2. WMA | 3. EnR | 4. WCE | |||
| Item 3 | I think I should eat food with less fat | 0.369 | 0.604 | |||
| Item 8 | Society‘s view of obese people affect me emotionally | 0.313 | 0.302 | |||
| Item 9 | I am worried about gaining more weight | 0.670 | 0.674 | |||
| Item 12 | Losing weight would make me improve to my relationships with others | 0.698 | 0.526 | |||
| Item 17 | Being overweight makes me feel bad | 0.778 | 0.527 | |||
| Item 18 | I feel guilty when I overeat | 0.644 | 0.685 | |||
| Item 19 | If I lost weight, I would feel better about myself | 0.772 | 0.814 | |||
| Item 20 | I’m not happy with my current weight | 0.678 | 0.709 | |||
| Item 22 | If I lost weight, I would be happier | 0.786 | 0.767 | |||
| Item 29 | I feel good when I am capable of controlling my eating habits | 0.486 | 0.541 | |||
| Item 33 | When I lose weight I feel proud of myself | 0.746 | 0.799 | |||
| Item 37 | There is somebody who listens to me when I need to talk about my being overweight | 0.468 | 0.457 | |||
| Item 41 | I am committed to losing weight | 0.683 | 0.547 | |||
| Item 4 | I look for information about the types of food which could help me to lose weight | 0.569 | 0.390 | |||
| Item 44 | I tell myself positive things to avoid overeating | 0.424 | 0.492 | |||
| Item 45 | When I really want to eat, I do activities to avoid it | 0.608 | 0.420 | |||
| Item 46 | I have learnt to control my appetite | 0.522 | 0.683 | |||
| Item 47 | I have learnt skills that reduce my appetite (e.g. relaxing) | 0.517 | 0.650 | |||
| Item 50 | I avoid buying high-calorie food | 0.473 | 0.571 | |||
| Item 62 | I prefer eating at home or cooking my own food to avoid overeating | 0.488 | 0.486 | |||
| Item 52 | I try to put food away so as to avoid nibbling | 0.576 | 0.426 | |||
| Item 53 | I try not to have food in sight | 0.632 | 0.536 | |||
| Item 54 | There are no snack foods in my fridge or cupboards | 0.433 | 0.561 | |||
| Item 61 | I avoid places where people eat a lot | 0.639 | 0.721 | |||
| Item 63 | When I am on a diet I avoid eating with people who I overeat with | 0.535 | 0.589 | |||
| Item 1 | I now realize I have a weight problem | 0.668 | 0.645 | |||
| Item 11 | My weight restricts my relationships | 0.608 | 0.378 | |||
| Item 13 | My current weight makes my daily life difficult | 0.738 | 0.734 | |||
| Item 14 | My family and friends are worried about my weight | 0.693 | 0.864 | |||
| Item 16 | Most of my health problems are due to my being overweight | 0.689 | 0.817 | |||
| Item 28 | I am aware that there are more and more people who encourage me to lose weight | 0.714 | 0.790 | |||
| Item 30 | My family and friends praise me for not overeating | 0.525 | 0.543 | |||
| Item 32 | My family and friends congratulate me when I manage to lose weight | 0.690 | 0.641 | |||
| Item 38 | People around me support me in trying to lose weight | 0.775 | 0.719 | |||
| Eigenvalues | 14.86 | 2.74 | 1.67 | 1.33 | ||
EmR = Emotional re-evaluation; WMA = weight management actions; EnR = environmental restructuring; WCE = weight consequences evaluation.