Granero, R., Jimenez-Murcia, S., Gearhardt, A. N., Agüera, Z., Aymamí, N., Gómez-Peña, M., Lozano-Madrid, M., Mallorquí-Bagué, N., Mestre-Bach, G., Neto-Antão, M. I., Riesco, N., Sánchez, I., Steward, T., Soriano-Mas, C., Vintró-Alcaraz, C., Menchón, J. M., Casanueva, F. F., Diéguez, C., & Fernández-Aranda, F. (2018). Validation of the Spanish Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS 2.0) and Clinical Correlates in a Sample of Eating Disorder, Gambling Disorder, and Healthy Control Participants. Frontiers in psychiatry, 9, 208. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00208
From the validation study’s results: “Food addiction severity was associated with higher BMI, psychopathology and specific personality traits, such as higher harm avoidance and lower self-directedness.”