Comparability of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 between women and men.
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Researchers studying eating disorders in men often use eating-disorder risk and symptom measures that have been validated only on women. Using a sample of 215 college women and 214 college men, this article reports on the validity the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), one of the best-validated among women and the most widely used risk and symptom measure for women. The EDI-2 had the same, standard eight-factor structure for both genders, and tests of invariance showed that factor loadings, factor variances, and factor intercorrelations were equivalent across gender. The EDI-2 scales correlated with questionnaire measures of bulimic and anorexic symptomatology equivalently across gender. However the EDI-2 scales were generally less reliable for men, leading to slightly lower Pearson-based estimates of correlations among the measures for men. |
Year of Publication | :
2004
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Journal | :
Assessment
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Volume | :
11
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Issue | :
1
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Number of Pages | :
85-93
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ISSN Number | :
1073-1911
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URL | :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073191103260623?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
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DOI | :
10.1177/1073191103260623
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Short Title | :
Assessment
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