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Table 3 Descriptive statistics for emotional eating, external eating, restrained eating, binge eating, bulimia, age, and BMI, for the different FA diagnostic scores

From: Food addiction and its relationship with other eating behaviours among Spanish university students

 

No food addiction

Mild food addiction

Moderate food addiction

Severe food addiction

p value

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

Emotional eating

22.44

8.11

26.64

8.56

29.22

10.06

38.27

12.15

< .001

External eating

28.77

7.04

29.36

6.24

30.36

6.97

35.13

7.44

< .001

Restrained eating

19.77

6.75

24.92

9.13

24.20

7.71

28.15

7.77

< .001

Binge eating

3.90

3.27

5.84

4.53

7.62

5.32

14.54

7.64

< .001

Bulimia

1.12

2.08

1.42

1.90

3.09

3.67

6.63

6.33

< .001

Age

24.60

6.46

24.78

7.80

23.24

3.45

23.12

5.00

.171

BMI

22.55

3.71

22.73

3.85

22.86

3.07

23.82

4.59

.088