The power of food scale. A new measure of the psychological influence of the food environment
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This paper describes the psychometric evaluation of a new measure called the Power of Food Scale (PFS). The PFS assesses the psychological impact of living in food-abundant environments. It measures appetite for, rather than consumption of, palatable foods, at three levels of food proximity (food available, food present, and food tasted). Participants were 466 healthy college students. A confirmatory factor analysis replicated the three-factor solution found previously by Capelleri et al. [Capelleri, J. C., Bushmakin, A. G., Gerber, R. A., Leidy, N. K., Sexton, C., Karlsson, J., et al. (in press). Discovering the structure of the Power of Food Scale (PFS) in obese patients. International Journal of Obesity, 11, A165]. The PFS was found to have adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The PFS and the Restraint Scale were regressed on four self-report measures of overeating. The PFS was independently related to all four whereas the Restraint Scale was independently related to two. Expert ratings of items suggested that the items are an acceptable reflection of the construct that the PFS is designed to capture. The PFS may be useful as a measure of the hedonic impact of food environments replete with highly palatable foods.
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The PFS has adequate internal and test-retest reliability and convergent and discriminant validity.
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- Authors
- Lowe, M. R., Butryn, M. L., Didie, E. R., Annunziato, R. A., Thomas, J. G., Crerand, C. E., Ochner, C. N., Coletta, M. C., Bellace, D., Wallaert, M., & Halford, J.
- Affiliations
- Drexel University (US)
- Swarthmore College (US)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lowe, Michael R.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Appetite
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 114-118
- ISSN
- 0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1975829928
- Cited by
- 548
- References
- 22
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- FWCI
- 18.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Appetite (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- Power of Food Scale, food environment, food availability, palatable food, overeating, dietary restriction, Restraint Scale, psychometric validation, university students
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Appetite, Eating, Environment, Female, Food, Food Preferences, Humans, Male, Obesity, Surveys and Questionnaires, Taste, Reproducibility of Results, Body Mass Index, Linear Models
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