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Table 2 Exploratory factors extracted from items of the SCOFF (N = 153)

From: The translation and psychometric assessment of the SCOFF eating disorder screening questionnaire: the Persian version

Factor

Qn.Item

Factor loading before rotation

Factor loading after rotation**

h2*

%Variance

Eigenvalue

Loss of Control Over Food

2. Do you worry you have lost Control over how much you eat?

0.617

–

0.651

–

0.432

29.715

1.486

4. Do you believe yourself to be Fat when others say you are too thin?

0.752

–

0.772

–

0.594

5. Would you say Food dominates your life?

0.550

–

0.514

–

0.320

Purging Behaviors

1. Do you make yourself Sick because you feel uncomfortably full?

0.475

0.600

–

0.661

0.586

22.753

1.138

3. Have you recently lost more than One stone (14 lb) in a three-month period?

–

0.825

–

0.804

0.692

  1. *Communality
  2. **Direct oblimin rotation