___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EAT-26 (Eating Attitudes Test) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 12-08-2016 last updated: 02-22-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-22-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the EAT- 26 (Eating Attitudes Test) as described in: Garner, D.M., Olmsted, M.P., Boh, Y. & Garfinkle, P.E. (1982). The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine, 12, 871-878 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26 6-point Likert questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'eat26.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Note: Scoring: q1-q25: always (3). usually (2), often (1) - the remaining answer choices (0) q26: reversed coded q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'eat_26_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) EAT26_total: the total score Note: Scoring: q1-q25: always (3). usually (2), often (1) - the remaining answer choices (0) q26: reversed coded Note: Norms are calculated based on data published by Garner et al. (1982). The mean and standard deviation used in this script are derived from a group of female college students (N = 140) zscore: the z-score of the EAT27 Total Score with mean = 9.9 and sd = 9.2 pvalue: the percentile of the EAT27 zscore ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NORMS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Norms are calculated based on data published by Garner et al. (1982). The mean and standard deviation used in this script are derived from a group of female college students (N = 140) Mean = 9.9, SD = 9.2 (see Garner et al., 1982, table 2) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ can be edited under section Editable Parameters ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /pageinstructions- /pageinstructions2: the presented page instructions Norming Statistics: The mean and standard deviation used in this script are derived from a group of female college students (N = 140) (see Garner et al., 1982, table 2) /mean = 9.9 /sd = 9.2