Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluacion y Tratamientos Psicologicos, Universidad de Valencia and CIBEROBN, Instituto Salud Carlos III, Valencia, Spain.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2011;40(3):424-33. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2011.563468.
The aims of this study were to validate the Emotional Eating Scale version for children (EES-C) in a Spanish population and study the differences in emotional eating among children with binge eating (BE), overeating (OE), and no episodes of disordered eating (NED). The questionnaire was completed by 199 children aged 9 to 16 years. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed five scales: eating in response to anger, anxiety, restlessness, helplessness, and depression. The EES-C showed good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and it showed moderate relationships with measures of disordered-eating [Children's Eating Attitudes Test-26 (ChEAT-26), Questionnaire of Eating and Weight Patterns-Adolescent Version (QEWP-A)] and psychopathology (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, Children's Depression Inventory, Child Behavior Checklist). There were significant differences between the BE/NED groups (with the OE group in the middle position) in desire to eat when Anger (the girls in BE group, and the oldest children in OE group obtaining higher scores) or Helplessness were present. Eating due to Depression was higher in the older groups. Multiple regression analysis conducted showed that anxiety-trait was the best predictor of emotional eating. Results support the potential utility of the EES-C in the study of emotional eating in children and its validity in the Spanish population.
本研究旨在验证儿童情绪进食量表（EES-C）在西班牙人群中的适用性，并研究暴食（BE）、过食（OE）和无饮食障碍发作（NED）儿童在情绪进食方面的差异。该问卷由 199 名 9 至 16 岁的儿童完成。验证性因子分析显示有五个分量表：愤怒、焦虑、不安、无助和抑郁时的进食。EES-C 具有良好的内部一致性和重测信度，与饮食障碍测量工具（儿童饮食态度测试 26 项量表（ChEAT-26）、青少年饮食和体重模式问卷（QEWP-A））和心理病理学（儿童状态特质焦虑量表、儿童抑郁量表、儿童行为检查表）有中度关联。在存在愤怒（BE 组中的女孩，OE 组中年龄较大的孩子得分较高）或无助感时，BE/NED 组（OE 组处于中间位置）存在想吃东西的强烈愿望。在年龄较大的组别中，因抑郁而进食的情况更为常见。进行的多元回归分析表明，特质焦虑是情绪进食的最佳预测因素。结果支持 EES-C 在研究儿童情绪进食中的潜在效用及其在西班牙人群中的有效性。
