title: Test-retest reliability and internal consistency of a variety of measures of dietary restraint and body concerns in a sample of adolescent girls.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were examined in a variety of measures relating to body concerns and dieting and eating behaviors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Grade 9 females (n = 363) from nine schools completed questionnaires with the aid of a definitions glossary at Time 1, including the five subscales of the Eating Attitudes Test, the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire-Restraint scale, a variety of measures of current size and ideal size (self, parents) based on the Body Figure Rating Questionnaire, the Appearance Evaluation and Appearance Orientation subscales of the Multidimensional Body Self-Rating Questionnaire, and the Weight Loss Behaviors Scale. Four to 5 weeks later, 164 girls completed the questionnaires again.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings indicated adequate internal consistency and high test-retest correlations for all measures. Some measures, particularly those related to body size and dietary restraint, showed a slight increase in group means over time.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Banasiak
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Wertheim
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koerner
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Voudouris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D004038:Diet, Reducing / Q000523:psychology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014739:Victoria