Eating Attitudes Test - EAT-26

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 08, 2016

Last Modified: January 09, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

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

Duration

3 minutes

Overview

26 6-point Likert questions

Instructions

can be edited under section Editable Parameters

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)

Summary Data

File Name: eat_26_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
eat26Total The total score
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
+ individual responses

Raw Data

File Name: eat26.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
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)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
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