Comparability of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 between women and men.
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| Abstract | :  Researchers studying eating disorders in men often use eating-disorder risk and symptom measures that have been validated only on women. Using a sample of 215 college women and 214 college men, this article reports on the validity the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), one of the best-validated among women and the most widely used risk and symptom measure for women. The EDI-2 had the same, standard eight-factor structure for both genders, and tests of invariance showed that factor loadings, factor variances, and factor intercorrelations were equivalent across gender. The EDI-2 scales correlated with questionnaire measures of bulimic and anorexic symptomatology equivalently across gender. However the EDI-2 scales were generally less reliable for men, leading to slightly lower Pearson-based estimates of correlations among the measures for men. | 
| Year of Publication | :  2004 | 
| Journal | :  Assessment | 
| Volume | :  11 | 
| Issue | :  1 | 
| Number of Pages | :  85-93 | 
| ISSN Number | :  1073-1911 | 
| URL | :  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073191103260623?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed | 
| DOI | :  10.1177/1073191103260623 | 
| Short Title | :  Assessment | 
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