The dimensionality of the 12‐item version of the Eating Attitudes Test. Confirmatory factor analyses

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The assumed three‐dimensional structure of the 12‐item version of the Eating Attitudes Test was examined by confirmatory factor analysis in a non‐clinical sample of 224 female and 261 male adolescents in grade 8 aged 14–15 years. Alternative models were examined. Data did neither support a three‐dimensional structure, nor a one‐dimensional structure using twelve items. Three dimensions were supported when one and three items were omitted from the girls' and boys' analyses, respectively. A second order factor structure was supported in both genders. Conceptual and psychometric issues are discussed. A discussion of the measurement domain of the eating problem construct in non‐clinicals is warranted.

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