Table 1.
Item loadings for the Teruel Orthorexia Scale
| MTurk sample | Yoga sample | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HeOr | OrNe | HeOr | OrNe | |
| 1. I feel good when I eat healthy food | 0.80 | − 0.44 | 0.60 | −0.02 |
| 2. I spend a lot of time buying, planning, and or/preparing food so my diet will be as healthy as possible | 0.71 | 0.16 | 0.66 | 0.09 |
| 3. I think that my way of eating is healthier than that of most peoplea | 0.86 | − 0.05 | 0.84 | − 0.12 |
| 4. I feel guilty when I eat food that I do not consider healthy | 0.15 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 0.72 |
| 5. My social relationships have been negatively affected by my concern about eating healthy fooda | − 0.05 | 0.91 | 0.15 | 0.55 |
| 6. My interest in healthy food is an important part of the way I am, of how I understand the world | 0.80 | 0.10 | 0.75 | 0.17 |
| 7. I’d rather eat a healthy food that is not very tasty than a good-tasting food that isn’t healthy | 0.60 | 0.29 | 0.55 | 0.19 |
| 8. I mainly eat foods that I consider healthy | 0.93 | − 0.10 | 0.85 | -0.12 |
| 9. My concern with healthy eating takes up a lot of my time | 0.22 | 0.72 | 0.34 | 0.57 |
| 10. I am concerned about the possibility of eating unhealthy foods | 0.25 | 0.57 | 0.16 | 0.70 |
| 11. I don’t mind spending more money on a food if I think it’s healthier | 0.71 | − 0.06 | 0.57 | − 0.09 |
| 12. I feel overwhelmed or sad if I eat food that I consider unhealthy | 0.12 | 0.71 | 0.00 | 0.82 |
| 13. I would rather eat a smaller portion of healthy food than get full from food that may not be healthya | 0.72 | 0.13 | 0.66 | − 0.02 |
| 14. I avoid eating with people who do not share my ideas about healthy eating | 0.07 | 0.80 | 0.17 | 0.57 |
| 15. I try to convince the people in my life to follow my healthy eating habitsa | 0.38 | 0.47 | 0.32 | 0.28 |
| 16. If I ever eat something I consider unhealthy, I punish myself for ita | − 0.07 | 0.93 | − 0.30 | 0.86 |
| 17. Thoughts about healthy eating prevent me from concentrating on other tasksa | − 0.07 | 0.98 | − 0.19 | 0.88 |
Test statistics and effect sizes are bolded for dichotomous comparisons (t-test and ANOVA)
HeOr healthy orthorexia, OrNe orthorexia nervosa
aIndicates that the item wording was modified from that presented in the original TOS article. Shaded cells indicate the factor where the item theoretically belongs. Loadings in bold indicate unsigned loadings above |30|. Underlined loadings indicate cross-loadings above |30|