Main description:

A comprehensive guide to the tools available for assessing diverse eating behaviors

* Written by internationally renowned authors
* Looks at diverse assessment methods
* Presents the relevant psychometric properties
* Looks at disordered as well as general eating behavior
* Explores newer topics, e.g., neophobia, intuitive eating, grazing, disgust sensitivity

Eating behavior encompasses a broad range of aspects: from under- to overeating and from normal to pathological eating. The expert contributors to this volume provide a comprehensive overview of assessment methods for eating behavior research and clinical practice, which include both self-report questionnaires and structured interviews as well as assessment of food intake in the laboratory, ecological momentary assessment, cognitive-behavioral tasks, and psychophysiological measures. They explore the assessment of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and others. They also address topics that may be associated with disordered eating and obesity but are also relevant in persons without these conditions, such as restrained eating and dieting, emotional eating, food craving and food "addiction," orthorexia nervosa, intuitive and mindful eating, and grazing. Further topics that are strongly connected to eating behavior such as body image, physical activity, body composition and expenditure, food neophobia and disgust sensitivity, and weight-related stigmatization are also examined. This book is essential reading for researchers working in clinical and health psychology, consumer psychology, psychiatry, and nutrition science as well as practitioners, including psychotherapists, physicians, nutrition counsellors, who assess eating behavior and related aspects in their daily work.

Contents:

Part I Introduction
1 Introduction: Assessment of Eating Behavior
Adrian Meule
Part II Eating Behavior Domains
2 Assessment of Restrained Eating and Dieting
Janet Polivy, C. Peter Herman, and Jennifer S. Mills
3 Assessment of Emotional Eating
C. Evers, N. Michels, S. Verbeken, and C. Braet
4 Assessment of Food Craving and Food "Addiction"
Lindzey V. Hoover and Ashley N. Gearhardt
5 Assessment of Orthorexia Nervosa
Crystal D. Oberle and Natalie A. Noebel
6 Assessment of Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Harley J. Stansfield, Jessica Kerin, and
Caroline Donovan
7 Assessment of Grazing
Eva M. Conceicao, Marta de Lourdes, and Carmem Beatriz Neufeld
8 Assessment of Anorexia Nervosa
Heather A. Davis, Meredith Kells, and Jennifer E. Wildes
9 Assessment of Bulimia Nervosa
Sophie R. Abber, Sarrah I. Ali, and Pamela K. Keel
10 Assessment of Binge Eating Disorder
Amy H. Egbert and Andrea B. Goldschmidt
11 Assessment of Other Eating Disorders
Kelly C. Allison
Part III Adjacent Domains
12 Assessment of Body Image
Rike Arkenau, Hannah L. Quittkat, and Silja Vocks
13 Assessment of Physical Activity
Elizabeth W. Lampe and Sasha Gorrell
14 Assessment of Body Composition and Energy Expenditure
Nuno Casanova, Ruairi O'Driscoll, Graham Finlayson, R. James
Stubbs, and Mark Hopkins
15 Assessment of Food Neophobia and Disgust Sensitivity
Christina Hartmann and Klazine van der Horst
16 Assessment of Weight-Related Stigmatization
Megan Lindloff and Angela Meadows
Part IV Assessment Methods and Issues
17 Measuring Food Intake in the Laboratory
Suzanne Higgs
18 Ecological Momentary Assessment of Eating Behavior
Diana Zhang, Tyler Mason, and Kathryn Smith
19 Behavioral Tasks for Changing and Measuring Reactions to Food
Sarah Masterton and Andrew Jones
20 Psychophysiological Measures in Eating Behavior Research
Contributors
Annika P. C. Lutz, Zoe van Dyck, and Claus Voegele