Cited by 682Eating Disorders and BehaviorsNutrition, Health and Food BehaviorAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Eating disorder examination questionnaire (EDE-Q): norms for young adult women

Open access
Mond, J.M., Hay, P.J., Rodgers, B., Owen, C.·2006·Behaviour Research and Therapy

Abstract

In order to establish norms for the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) among young adult women, the questionnaire was administered to a large general population sample of women aged 18-42 yr in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region of Australia. Normative data were derived for EDE-Q subscales and for the occurrence of specific eating disorder behaviours, for each of five age bands (18-22, 23-27, 28-32, 33-37, 38-42 yr). Mean scores (SDs) for the Restraint, Eating Concern, Weight Concern and Shape Concern subscales for the total sample (n = 5,255) were, respectively, 1.30 (1.40), 0.76 (1.06), 1.79 (1.51) and 2.23 (1.65). The mean global score was 1.52 (1.25). The regular occurrence of objective and subjective overeating episodes was reported by 10.6% and 12.7% of participants, respectively. The regular use of self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse, and use of diuretics, was reported by 1.4%, 1.0%, and 0.3%, of participants, respectively, while 2.2% of participants reported regularly using diet pills. "Extreme dietary restraint" and "excessive exercise" were reported by 3.4% and 4.9% of participants, respectively. Both attitudinal and behavioural features of eating disorder psychopathology tended to decrease with increasing age. These data will inform researchers intending to use the EDE-Q in epidemiological studies.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.brat.2004.12.003

Cites

31 of 31 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

4 of the 35 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Mond, J. M., Hay, P. J., Rodgers, B., & Owen, C.
Affiliations
  • Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (US)
  • James Cook University (AU)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
Mond, J.M.
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-01
Volume
44
Issue
1
Pages
53-62
ISSN
0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2050445803
Cited by
681
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 47 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 32 · 2012: 37
FWCI
11.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ResearchOnline - JCU (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
  • eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, young adult women, eating disorder psychopathology, dietary restraint, overeating, self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse, diuretic use, weight loss pills, excessive exercise, age differences
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Attitude, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reference Values, Chi-Square Distribution

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review