Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire.

TFEQ

What it measures

Eating-behaviour style (not symptoms); three dimensions - Cognitive Restraint, Disinhibition, Hunger (relabelled Cognitive Restraint, Uncontrolled Eating, Emotional Eating in the R18)

Length and format

51 (original); 18 (TFEQ-R18); 21 (TFEQ-R21). Mostly true/false + a few 4-point items (original); 4-point Likert (R18/R21); subscale scores (often 0-100 transformed) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Dozens of languages incl. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, SV, FI, ZH, JA, PL; very broadly adapted (esp. R18)

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

open with attribution

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Reference

Stunkard, A. J., & Messick, S. (1985). The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 29(1), 71-83.