Gender-based differential item functioning in measures of eating pathology.
Lauren M SchaeferLisa Marie AndersonMelissa SimoneShannon M O'ConnorHana ZickgrafDrew A AndersonRachel F RodgersJ Kevin ThompsonPublished in: The International journal of eating disorders (2019)
Findings suggest that the examined measures perform similarly for undergraduate men and women, supporting their use in nonclinical male samples. However, development and testing of items reflecting ED symptoms that more commonly occur in males (e.g., muscularity-oriented behaviors) is encouraged.