Manzoni, G. M., Rossi, A., Pietrabissa, G., Varallo, G., Molinari, E., Poggiogalle, E., Donini, L. M., Tarrini, G., Melchionda, N., Piccione, C., Gravina, G., Luxardi, G., Manzato, E., Schumann, R., Innamorati, M., Imperatori, C., Fabbricatore, M., & Castelnuovo, G. (2018). Validation of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in postgraduate university students. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 23
(2), 167–176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-018-0495-0
From the research article’s abstract: “This study was aimed to examine the structural and construct validity of the Italian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale in a multisite sample of postgraduate students. Two hundred and fifty-six subjects (78.1% females) aged from 18 to 53 years (mean = 23.93, SD = 4.96) and attending different postgraduate university programs at multiple Italian universities completed the Italian YFAS, the Italian Binge Eating Scale (BES), the Italian Eating Attitudes Test-26 and the Italian Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) online through Qualtrics. Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the single-factor model of the Italian YFAS including all original items had adequate fit indexes (χ2252 = 454.183; p < 0.001; normed χ2 = 1.802; RMSEA = 0.056; 90% CI 0.048–0.076; CFI = 0.761; WRMR = 1.592).