Table 1.
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) items.
| Variable (subscale) | Items | Response options | Format | ||||
| Time-triggered EMA | |||||||
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Positive and negative affect | How were you feeling right before the phone signal went off? (upset, nervous, stressed, could not cope, happy, great, cheerful, joyful) |
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Separate screen for each of the 8 items | |||
| Eating event–triggered EMA | |||||||
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Eating confirmation | Were you eating or drinking just now? |
|
—a | |||
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Eating type | What did you just eat? |
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— | |||
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Social context | Who was eating with you? (check all that apply) |
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— | |||
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Eating in the absence of hunger—started eating | I started eating because (food looked, tasted, or smelled so good; others were eating; feeling sad or depressed; feeling bored; feeling angry or frustrated; feeling tired; feeling anxious or nervous; my family or parents wanted me to eat). |
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Separate screen for each of the 8 items | |||
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Eating in the absence of hunger—kept eating | I kept eating because (food looked, tasted, or smelled so good; others were eating; feeling sad or depressed; feeling bored; feeling angry or frustrated; feeling tired; feeling anxious or nervous; I wanted to finish the food on my plate). |
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Separate screen for each of the 8 items | |||
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Hunger level before eating | How hungry were you right before you ate? |
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Sliding scale 0 to 100 | |||
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Satiation level after eating | How full were you right after you ate? |
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Sliding scale 0 to 100 | |||
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Mindful eating | Before the beep, while I was eating (My thoughts were wandering while I ate; I was thinking about things I need to do while I ate; I ate so quickly that I did not taste anything). |
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Separate screen for each of the 3 items | |||
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Positive and negative affect | How were you feeling right before the phone signal went off? (upset, nervous, stressed, could not cope, happy, great, cheerful, joyful) |
|
Separate screen for each of the 8 items | |||
aNo additional formatting notes.