Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 7 Multiple-group comparisons of latent factor means and their corresponding effect sizes in combined sample

From: Assessing the factor structure and measurement invariance of the eating attitude test (EAT-26) across language and BMI in young Arab women

	FGF					ERC					FP					SP					VBP
	∆ Latent Mean	Pooled SD	Effect Size	P-Value	95% CI	∆ Latent Mean	Pooled SD	Effect Size	P-Value	95% CI	∆ Latent Mean	Pooled SD	Effect Size	P-Value	95% CI	∆ Latent Mean	Pooled SD	Effect Size	P-Value	95% CI	∆ Latent Mean	Pooled SD	Effect Size	P-Value	95% CI
Language* (N = 2270)
English (n = 521)	−.155	2.28	−.068	.021	−0.29, 0.02	0.225	1.72	.130	.000	0.13, 0.32	.156	1.77	.088	.003	0.05, 0.26	−.103	2.54	−.040	.169	−0.25, 0.04	.158	1.51	.105	.000	0.07, 0.25
BMI** (N = 2048)
Normal Weight (n = 1052)	.888	2.61	.340	.000	0.74, 1.04	.444	1.92	.231	.000	0.33, 0.55	.224	2.22	.101	.001	0.10, 0.35	−1.33	3.29	−.406	.000	−1.52, −1.14	−.056	2.06	−.027	.357	−0.17, 0.06
Overweight/Obese (n = 747)	2.01	3.04	.663	.000	1.84, 2.19	0.967	2.192	0.441	.000	0.84, 1.09	0.752	2.587	0.291	.000	0.60, 0.90	−2.323	3.490	−0.666	.000	−2.52, −2.12	0.042	2.205	0.019	.513	−0.08, 0.17

Notes: SD Standard Deviation, CI Confidence Interval, FGF fear of getting fat, ERC eating- related control, FP food preoccupation, SP social pressure to gain weight, VPB vomiting-purging behavior, BMI Body Mass Index
*Baseline for language base comparison is Arabic (n = 1749)
**Baseline for BMI comparison was underweight BMI category (n = 249)

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