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. 2021 May 8;27(2):651–663. doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01201-9

Table 2.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis for 1023 participants who completed the AEBQ; and compared to the original AEBQ paper

Model 1
(eight-factors)
Model 2
(seven-factors without Hunger)
Original AEBQ
(eight-factors)
References*

RMSEA

90% CI

0.058 (0.056–0.061) 0.063 (0.060–0.066) 0.058 (0.056-0.061)  < 0.06
CFI 0.864 0.868 0.896  > 0.90
NFI 0.832 0.842 0.870  > 0.90
AIC 2580.770 2118.586 2613.345** Smaller values, where the magnitude changes by at least 2 points***
BIC 3063.958 2512.956 3055.665**

RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, CFI comparative fit index, NFI normed fit index, AIC Akaike’s Information Criteria, BIC Bayesian Information Criterion

*Hu and Bentler 1999 [46]; Dugard et al. 2010 [41]

**These AIC and BIC values cannot be used to compare against the AIC and BIC values from analyses in the original AEBQ paper with the values for the analyses on the AEBQ-Esp; they can only be used to test nested models within the same sample (e.g., Model 1 and Model 2 for the AEBQ-Esp)

***Burnham and Anderson 2003 [43]