TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring social processes regarding eating, physical activity, and weight in higher-weight people
T2 - the weight-related interactions scale (WRIS)
AU - Rieger, Elizabeth
AU - Lee, Yee Fong
AU - Monaghan, Conal
AU - Zwickert, Kristy
AU - Murray, Kristen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Purpose: This study sought to develop a psychometrically sound measure to assess effective and ineffective forms of input from others regarding eating, physical activity, and weight in higher-weight people, namely, the Weight-Related Interactions Scale (WRIS). Methods: Participants (n = 736) were adults in the overweight/obese weight ranges who completed the WRIS and measures of weight-specific social support, emotional eating, weight stigma, eating-specific self efficacy, and social desirability. Results: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the WRIS supported a three-factor solution of ‘Criticism’, ‘Minimization’, and ‘Collaboration’ as forms of weight-related input from others. Support was found for the reliability and the concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity of the WRIS. Conclusions: The WRIS is a promising new instrument for comprehensively assessing the input of others in relation to eating, physical activity, and weight among higher-weight individuals. Level of evidence: Level III. Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case–control analytic studies.
AB - Purpose: This study sought to develop a psychometrically sound measure to assess effective and ineffective forms of input from others regarding eating, physical activity, and weight in higher-weight people, namely, the Weight-Related Interactions Scale (WRIS). Methods: Participants (n = 736) were adults in the overweight/obese weight ranges who completed the WRIS and measures of weight-specific social support, emotional eating, weight stigma, eating-specific self efficacy, and social desirability. Results: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the WRIS supported a three-factor solution of ‘Criticism’, ‘Minimization’, and ‘Collaboration’ as forms of weight-related input from others. Support was found for the reliability and the concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity of the WRIS. Conclusions: The WRIS is a promising new instrument for comprehensively assessing the input of others in relation to eating, physical activity, and weight among higher-weight individuals. Level of evidence: Level III. Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case–control analytic studies.
KW - Obesity
KW - Overweight
KW - Questionnaire
KW - Social support
KW - Social undermining
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106521246&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s40519-021-01208-2
DO - 10.1007/s40519-021-01208-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1124-4909
VL - 27
SP - 737
EP - 749
JO - Eating and Weight Disorders
JF - Eating and Weight Disorders
IS - 2
ER -