Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ-TR)

Abstract

Objective: In this study, we aimed to translate the Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ) to Turkish and investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version. Method: The participants, consisting of 749 undergraduate students majoring at nursing or midwifery, completed on the EEQ and the Oxford Happiness Scale (OHS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Orthorexia Nervosa-11 Scale (ORTO-11), the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale (ZCBS) and the Eating Attitude Test (EAT). Results: An internal consistency coefficient of 0.84 was computed for the entire scale which, similarly to the original scale, demonstrated a three-factor structure, namely, “Disinhibition”, “Type of food” and “Guilt”. All corrected item-total correlations were above 0.34. The EEQ score showed negative correlations with the OHS score at a low level (r=−0.15, p