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Assessment, Vol. 11, No. 1, 85-93 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191103260623

Comparability of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 Between Women and Men

Nichea S. Spillane

University of Kentucky

Laura M. Boerner

University of Kentucky

Kristen G. Anderson

University of California, San Diego

Gregory T. Smith

University of Kentucky

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.

Key Words: male eating disorders • gender equivalence • invariance


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