Eating Attitudes Testとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) is a widely used standardized self-report measure of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders and is more fully described on the EAT-26.com website . The original 40-item version of the EAT was published in 1979 ; it was developed for a study to examine socio-cultural factors in the development and maintenance of eating disorders A 1982 publication by Garner and colleagues described a 26-item refinement of the original test . Since that time, the EAT has been translated into many different languages and used in hundreds of studies. The original 1979 paper is a Current Contents Citation Classic . Both the original paper and the subsequent 1982 publication are 3rd and 4th on the list of the 10 most cited articles in the history of the journal Psychological Medicine [1], a journal founded more than 40 years ago with a high Impact Factor in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.