The relationship between psychological distress and weight maintenance in weight cycling: mediating role of eating behavior

Table 2 Internal consistency and score of the SCL9, PFS, DEBQ and its three subscales

scales	baseline						6months
scales	M	SD	α	M	SD	α	Μ	SD	α
SCL9	12.86	0.36	0.821	11.80	0.34	0.847	12.25	4.03	0.787
PFS	47.49	0.92	0.900	35.94	0.95	0.925	37.54	12.81	0.939
PFS1	17.45	0.42	0.773	13.52	0.39	0.803	14.06	5.40	0.849
PFS2	13.93	0.27	0.804	9.52	0.30	0.869	10.06	3.72	0.863
PFS3	16.11	0.35	0.819	12.91	0.35	0.848	13.30	4.64	0.862
DEBQ	86.33	1.42	0.903	71.62	1.56	0.910	84.74	19.68	0.916
DEBQ1	16.45	0.46	0.806	12.35	0.44	0.773	23.47	5.94	0.848
DEBQ2	35.63	1.03	0.956	30.44	1.00	0.968	31.62	12.18	0.962
DEBQ3	34.24	0.45	0.813	28.83	0.57	0.896	29.90	6.93	0.892
Satiety	72.24	1.70	/	69.08	1.44	/	69.91	16.56	/
Hunger	66.33	1.67	/	43.25	1.89	/	55.60	24.07	/

Note: M: mean;SD: standard deviation; α:Cronbach’s α; SCL-9: Symptom-Checklist-K-9; PFS: Power of Food Scales; PFS1: PFS of food available; PFS2: PFS of food present; PFS3: PFS of food tasted; DEBQ: Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire; DEBQ1: DEBQ of restrained eating; DEBQ2: DEBQ of emotional eating; DEBQ3 DEBQ of external eating

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