Psychological factors affecting eating behavior
Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the Compulsive Eating
Scale (CES) was 0.80. The exploratory factor analyses
yielded one factors with given values greater than 1
(3.1). The two-factor solution accounted for 51.0% of the
variance. Factor loading ranged from 0.41 to 0.50.
Nearly 48.5% ate because of feeling lonely, 62.1% felt
completely out of control when it comes to food, 53.8%
ate till stomach hurts, 53% ate because of feeling upset
or nervous and 59.1% ate because of feeling bored. The
majority ate because of feeling happy (80.3%) (Table 3).