Assessment of Eating Behavior: (6 Psychological Assessment – Science and Practice)

Written by internationally renowned authors Looks at diverse assessment methods Presents the relevant psychometric properties Looks at disordered as well as general eating behavior Recommends selection in different settings 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.

Table of 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 Catharine Evers, Nathalie Michels, Sandra Verbeken, and Caroline 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. Conceição, Marta de Lourdes, and Carmen 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-Kathmann, 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 Measuring and Changing Reactions to Food Sarah Masterton and Andrew Jones 20 Psychophysiological Measures in Eating Behavior Research Annika P. C. Lutz, Zoé van Dyck, and Claus Vögele

About the Author :
Adrian Meule, PhD, is a researcher at the University Hospital of the LMU Munich and the Schoen Clinic Roseneck (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany). His major research interests include eating behavior, eating disorders, obesity, and other topics in health and clinical psychology, about which he has published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters as well as one book. He served as editor for several scientific journals and is currently Co-Chief Editor of the journal Mental Health Science and on the editorial board of Obesity Science and Practice.