Translation of the Chinese version of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and its validation among college students

Table 5 Comparison of the Chinese mYFAS 2.0 scores of subjects with different characteristics

	M	SD	t\|F	p-value	Pairwise differences^a
Sex			0.819	0.366
1. male	1.66	2.49
2. female	1.61	2.36
Grade			0.595	0.619
Freshman	1.37	2.55
Sophomore	1.59	2.36
Junior	1.66	2.41
Senior	1.81	2.42
Dieting ideas for weight loss			7.219	0.000
Had dieted or are dieting to lose weight (1)	1.98	2.58			(1) > (3), (4)
Had dieting ideas but did not implement (2)	1.61	2.40
Did not have dieting ideas (3)	1.27	2.22
Resisted dieting (4)	0.95	1.47
Smoking			4.361	0.013
No (1)	1.56	2.35			(1) < (3)
Yes, less than once a day (2)	2.44	3.13
Yes, every day (3)	2.49	2.57
Drinking			10.763	0.000
No (1)	1.52	2.30			(1), (2) < (3)
Yes, less than once a day (2)	1.79	2.51
Yes, every day (3)	3.21	3.22

M, mean; SD, standard deviation; t, t-test; F, analysis of variance; Bold values correspond to statistically significant correlations (p < 0.05); Pairwise^a differences were p < 0.05 (Bonferroni corrected)

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