Emotional Eating Scale

Authors

Bruce Arnow, Cheryl Kenardy, and W. Stewart Agras (1995)

The EES is a self-report questionnaire assessing how negative affective states relates to disordered eating. Other than the total score, the EES contains 3 subscales that assess eating urges and (1) Anger/ Frustration, (2) Anxiety, and (3) Depression.

What this tool is good for:

This tool is useful for identifying emotional eating patterns, which can be critical in understanding and treating eating disorders. This tool was developed particularly for those with binge eating disorder.

Validity and Reliability Papers

Arnow, B., Kenardy, J., & Agras, W. S. (1995). The Emotional Eating Scale: The development of a measure to assess coping with negative affect by eating. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 18, 79–90

Schneider, K.L, Panza, E., Appelhans, B.M., Whited, M.C., Oleski, J.L., Pagoto, S.L. (2012) The emotional eating scale. Can a self-report measure predict observed emotional eating? Appetite, 58(2), 563-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.01.012

Duarte, C., Pinto-Gouveia, J.(2015) Returning to emotional eating: the emotional eating scale psychometric properties and associations with body image flexibility and binge eating. Eat Weight Disord 20, 497–504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-015-0186-z

Type of tool

Mechanisms/Processes

Specific gender

Non-specific

Age validated for use with

Adults (18+ years)

Eating disorders

BED

Evaluates

Emotion regulation, Signs and symptoms, Eating attitudes

Delivery Setting

Self-report

Number of Questions

Specific Populations

General population

Approximate administration time:

10-15-minutes

Languages

English, Arabic, Portuguese