2.2.2. Motivation for Eating Scale (MFES)
when I choose to eat are when I see something good at the checkout
stand”; α = .78 in the present study); Physical eating (P), that takes
4. Discussion
This study aimed to investigate different indicators of sensation
seeking and motivations for eating in adolescents who binge eat. To
our knowledge this is the first study that explored the association be-
tween different dimensions of sensation seeking and binge eating in a
non-clinical sample of male and female adolescents. Our results showed
that two dimensions of sensation seeking were associated to binge eat-
ing in male adolescents. Specifically this study found that, the tendency