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Clinical: specific disorders

Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.

DEBQ

What it measures
Eating-behaviour style; three subscales - Restrained Eating, Emotional Eating, External Eating
Length and format
33 items. 5-point frequency (never-very often, 1-5); three subscale means (Restrained 10, Emotional 13, External 10 items) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages incl. EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, PL, ZH, JA, AR, TR; among the most-translated eating-style measures
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
van Strien, T., Frijters, J. E. R., Bergers, G. P. A., & Defares, P. B. (1986). The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) for assessment of restrained, emotional, and external eating behavior. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 5(2), 295-315.

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