Emotional Eating Behavior Assessment

The Emotional Eating Behavior Assessment is designed to assess a person’s tendency to eat for reasons other than hunger. It will evaluate the underlying reasons for over-eating.

What It’s Best Used For

• Informed Therapeutic Counseling: Assisting clinical therapists, nutritionists, or wellness practitioners in identifying the core behavioral drivers of overeating to tailor patient intervention plans.
• Pinpointing Emotional Triggers: Uncovering the specific negative or circumstantial emotions that lead a person to turn to food as a temporary relief mechanism.
• Evaluating Stress and Coping Skills: Measuring an individual’s foundational resilience, anxiety levels, frustration tolerance, and basic ability to effectively deal with stress without using external rewards.
• Assessing Mindset and Accountability: Auditing a person’s “Health Locus of Control” and self-efficacy to determine whether they believe their physical health is under their own personal control.
• Auditing Impulse and Mental Habits: Mapping out a participant’s self-discipline, anger control, and underlying symptoms of depression that may directly complicate weight management.

No. of questions: 149
Question type: Self-Report
Estimated completion time: 25 minutes
Shorter versions of assessment: N/A
Recommended age level: 18+
Qualification Level: Class A
Compliance: APA standards
Validation Information:
Sample Size: 5,743
Cronbach’s Alpha: 0.96

Benchmarks: Available (general population; overweight and healthy weight population)
Group Comparisons: Available

Report Includes

• Summary
• Introduction
• Graphs
• Detailed narrative interpretation
• Strengths vs. Areas of Concern
• Advice

Factors and Scales

Overall Score 23 scales including:

• Emotional Eating Triggers: Circumstances/Emotions that could potentially result in emotional eating.
• Health Locus of Control: Assesses whether a person believes his/her level of health is under his/her personal control.
• Self-discipline: Refers to the training and control of oneself and one’s conduct.
• Reward Dependence: Assesses whether a person uses extrinsic, tangible rewards rather than intrinsic rewards as a source of motivation.
• Sense of Self-efficacy: Assesses whether a person believes in himself/herself and his/her abilities.
• Depression: Assesses whether a person exhibits symptoms of depression.
• Anxiety: Assesses whether a person exhibits symptoms of anxiety.
• Resilience: Ability to deal effectively with hardship and to strive forward in spite of difficulties.
• Anger Control: Ability to regulate and control anger.
• Tolerance for Frustration: Ability to endure frustrating circumstances and delay gratification.
• Coping Skills: Ability to effectively deal with stress.

This tool is intended for general screening and counseling support. It does not replace a clinical evaluation or medical diagnosis for eating disorders. If you are struggling with a medical condition, please consult a licensed healthcare professional.