The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire and BMI in adolescents: results from the Québec Family Study

Eating behaviour traits are associated with body weight variations in adults. The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) measures cognitive restraint, disinhibition and hunger, as well as their corresponding subscales, e.g. rigid and flexible control. The TFEQ has not been widely used in adolescen...

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Veröffentlicht in:	British journal of nutrition 2010-10, Vol.104 (7), p.1074-1079
Hauptverfasser:	Gallant, A. R., Tremblay, A., Pérusse, L., Bouchard, C., Després, J.-P., Drapeau, V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Adolescents appetite Behavior Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity Biological and medical sciences Body Mass Index Body weight boys Child cognition cognitive restraint Diet diet recall Diet Surveys Disinhibition Eating behavior Eating behaviour traits eating habits Emotions Family studies Feeding Behavior Feeding. Feeding behavior Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology girls Health Behavior Humans Hunger Inhibition (Psychology) Male Obesity Obesity - etiology Obesity - psychology Quebec Questionnaires Restraint Sex Factors Stress, Psychological Surveys and Questionnaires Teenagers Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
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Zusammenfassung:	Eating behaviour traits are associated with body weight variations in adults. The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) measures cognitive restraint, disinhibition and hunger, as well as their corresponding subscales, e.g. rigid and flexible control. The TFEQ has not been widely used in adolescents to investigate eating behaviour traits associated with body weight. The aim of the present study was to assess whether eating behaviour traits were associated with BMI in male and female adolescents. Sixty adolescents (thirty females and thirty males; mean age 15·0 (sd 2·4) years) from the Québec Family Study completed the TFEQ and 3 d dietary records. There were no sex differences in the TFEQ scores. Rigid control, disinhibition and emotional susceptibility (to overeat) were positively related to BMI z-scores for the entire sample (r 0·3, P
ISSN:	0007-1145 1475-2662
DOI:	10.1017/S0007114510001662