The Development and Validation of Spanish Versions of the State and Trait Food Cravings Questionnaires

Overview

Journal Behav Res Ther

Specialty Psychology

Date 2000 Nov 4

PMID 11060941

Citations 144

Authors

A Cepeda-Benito

D H Gleaves

M C Fernandez

J Vila

T L Williams

J Reynoso

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Abstract

Objective: We developed and tested the psychometric properties of Spanish versions of the Trait and State Food Cravings Questionnaires (FCQ-T and FCQ-S respectively).

Method: The instruments were translated and adapted to Spanish and administered to undergraduate students from a Southern university in Spain (N = 271). The data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis to compare the factor structure of the English and Spanish versions of both questionnaires.

Results: The factors structure of both questionnaires obtained excellent fit indices across their Spanish versions with the one exception that some factors of the FCQ-S were more highly intercorrelated among the Spanish sample than the American.

Discussion: This study supports the conceptualization of food cravings as universal multidimensional motivational states that can be reliably measured and supports the use of the Spanish versions of the FCQ.

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