Exploring a core psychopathology in disordered eating: the feelings of fat scale

Table 2 Means and standard deviations for SFF, EDE-Q scores and individual SFF items for Studies 2 (N = 149) and 3 (N = 110). Study 2 correlations are in the lower half of the table and Study 3 correlations in the upper half. All correlations statistically significant at p < .001

	EDE-Q	SFF	Item 1	Item 2	Item 3	Item 4	Item 5	Item 6	Item 7	Item 8	Item 9
EDE-Q	–	.841	.633	.679	.643	.675	.775	.830	.824	.622	.605
SFF score	.808	–	.764	.812	.811	.822	.921	.932	.908	.758	.738
1. I feel that my clothes are tight	.525	.678	–	.682	.605	.567	.659	.674	.658	.448	.450
2. I feel that my stomach is distended	.693	775	.628	–	.690	.592	.742	.751	.741	.464	.411
3. I feel that my face is round and chubby	.614	.761	.416	.574	–	.693	.692	.716	.687	.463	.478
4. I feel my thighs are thick and heavy	.693	.875	.535	.656	.640	–	.755	.753	.733	.515	.500
5. I feel my entire body is wide	.742	.925	.556	.656	.701	.806	–	.915	.873	.623	.611
6. I feel big	.763	.915	.561	.665	.637	.775	.925	–	.869	.649	.627
7. I feel fat	.786	.927	.552	.687	.672	.817	.877	.908	–	.637	.586
8. I feel like the cells in my body are turning into fat	.589	.793	.478	.499	.494	.635	.654	.649	.670	–	.875
9. I feel like blobs of fat are attaching themselves to my body	.590	.698	.473	.489	.527	.662	.679	.658	.689	.825	–
Study 2 Mean (SD)	2.39 (1.4)	3.09 (1.5)	2.81 (1.4)	3.38 (1.6)	3.43 (1.8)	3.89 (1.9)	3.19 (2.0)	3.10 (2.0)	3.19 (1.9)	2.56 (1.8)	2.29 (1.8)
Study 3 Mean (SD)	2.49 (1.5)	3.07 (1.5)	2.94 (1.7)	3.44 (1.7)	3.56 (2.0)	3.76 (1.9)	3.15 (1.9)	3.10 (1.9)	3.39 (1.7)	2.37 (1.9)	1.96 (1.6)

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