Eating disordered behavior in women: cross-cultural self-report assessment and issues

This paper first reviews two important issues involved in the transcultural validation of eating disorder self-report inventories. Following this, three self-report eating disorder inventories are reviewed: 1) the Eating Attitudes Test (Garner & Garfinkel, 1979; Garner, Olmstead, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982); 2) the Eating Disorder Inventory (Garner, Olmstead, & Polivy, 1983; Garner, 1991); and 3) the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnoses (Mintz, O’Halloran, Mulholland, & Schneider, 1997). Each review includes a general description, availability information, summaries of psychometric evaluations of English and translated versions, and recommendations concerning research and clinical uses. Brief synopses of self-report inventories not reviewed, as well as structured clinical interviews, are also provided.