Examining the Factor Structure and Subgroup Invariance of the Deliberate Denial of Disordered Eating Behaviors Scale
Lindsay Howard, Sage Hawn, Kayla D. Pitchford, Riley McGrath, Aubri Farniok, Arturo Sesma, Kristin E. Heron · 2026
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Lindsay Howard and co-authors put a questionnaire about hiding eating problems under the microscope, in a 2026 psychometric study. People with disordered eating often deny or conceal their behaviors, which can keep problems going, yet few tools measure that denial. The team retested a twelve-item scale in more than three thousand undergraduates, checking its structure and whether it means the same thing across gender, race, and symptom severity.
The original single-score design failed statistical tests. A trimmed seven-item version focused on denying dietary restriction fit well, hung together reliably, and lined up sensibly with related measures of concealment and restraint. Scores compared fairly across men and women and across Black and White students, though the scale's zero point shifted with symptom severity, complicating direct group comparisons there. The authors renamed the short form and call for testing beyond college samples.
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| CREATOR | Lindsay Howard, Sage Hawn, Kayla D. Pitchford, Riley McGrath, Aubri Farniok, Arturo Sesma, Kristin E. Heron |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |