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Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Evaluate Construct Validity of the Indonesian Palatable Eating Motives Scale (I-PEMS)
A.D. Cahyani1, 2, *, A. Iskandarsyah1, S. Cahyadi1, W. Srisayekti1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 13
First Page: 1
Last Page: 4
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-13-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874350102013010001
Article History:
Received Date: 27/09/2019Revision Received Date: 10/01/2020
Acceptance Date: 16/01/2020
Electronic publication date: 14/02/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The purpose of this work is to establish the validity of the Indonesian Palatable Eating Motives Scale (I-PEMS) and to describe the characteristics in palatable eating motives among current Indonesian young adults. The Original Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS) was translated into Indonesian and back-translated into English to confirm the conceptual and linguistic equivalence. The scale was administered to emerging adults aged 18-25 years old. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that the I-PEMS has an acceptable factor structure. The result provided evidence of four factors of palatable eating motives. No significant difference from the I-PEMS score between males and females. The association was only observed between the scores of Conformity motive and Body Mass Index.