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Mother/Daughter Agreement on the Eating Attitudes Test and the Eating Disorder Inventory

Indiana University

John E. Bates

Indiana University

Adolescent self-reports on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) are used widely to assess eating disorder symptoms. However, no published study has examined agreement between the youth and another source on these measures. This study assessed mother/daughter agreement on the EAT-26 and EDI. Subjects included 319 middle school girls and their mothers. The median correlation between mother and daughter report on the EAT and EDI scales was .22, with a range of .04 to .49. Mother/daughter agreement was highest on body dissatisfaction. Bulimia scales showed near-zero mother/daughter convergence. Maternal reports of their daughters `eating disorder symptoms were significantly lower than daughter self-report means on all but one subscale, the EAT-26 bulimia subscale. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that subscale structures did not generalize well to mother reports of their daughters' eating disorders.

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 16, No. 2, 179-191 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431696016002003


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