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First published on February 29, 2008
Assessment 2008, doi:10.1177/1073191107312651
© 2008 SAGE Publications

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Clinical Validation of the Trait and State Versions of the Food Craving Questionnaire

Silvia Moreno1, Sonia Rodríguez1, Mari Carmen Fernandez1, Jeannine Tamez2, and Antonio Cepeda-Benito2*

1 University of Granada
2 Texas A&M University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: acb{at}tamu.edu.


  Abstract
This is the first study to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T), and Food Craving Questionnaire–State (FCQ-S) measures using a clinically heterogeneous sample of eating disorder patients (N = 177) recruited from seven different outpatient eating disorder treatment centers in Spain. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) corroborated the factor structures of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S. The measures’ scores and their factor-derived scale–scores yielded internal consistency reliability indexes that ranged from adequate to excellent. The measures were predictive of eating disorder symptoms. As expected, the FCQ-T was more strongly associated with eating disorder psychopathology than the FCQ-S. The results replicated the psychometric properties of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S in eating disorder populations and could become useful tools in clinical and research settings.


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