Table 6.

Proportion of affirmative responses to FIES items, item severity parameters and item fit statistics, grouped by sex.

Item	Affirmative responses (%)	Severity ±SE	Infit	Outfit
Female
Worried	83.8	−0.227 ± 0.225	0.954	1.613
Healthy	84.1	−0.271 ± 0.226	0.889	1.065
Few food	95.9	−2.569 ± 0.407	1.061	0.551
Skipped	81.4	0.064 ± 0.219	0.943	0.624
Ate less	91.7	−1.414 ± 0.278	0.932	1.453
Runout	78.3	0.415 ± 0.213	1.179	0.981
Hungry	77.6	0.491 ± 0.213	0.984	0.801
Whole day	44.8	3.511 ± 0.286	1.018	0.60
Male
Worried	72.0	0.784 ± 0.287	1.036	1.042
Healthy	75.5	0.429 ± 0.296	0.872	0.655
Few food	93.7	−2.777 ± 0.626	1.137	0.537
Skipped	82.5	−0.383 ± 0.326	1.221	1.248
Ate less	90.2	−1.652 ± 0.431	0.930	1.987
Runout	74.8	0.502 ± 0.294	0.999	0.803
Hungry	76.9	0.278 ± 0.301	0.707	0.505
Whole day	48.3	2.818 ± 0.320	1.134	1.246