The development and validation of Spanish versions of the State and Trait Food Cravings Questionnaires

Objective: We developed and tested the psychometric properties of Spanish v ersions of the Trait and State Food Cravings Questionnaires (FCQ-T and FCQ- S respectively). Method: The instruments were translated and adapted to Spa nish and administered to undergraduate students from a Southern university in Spain (N = 271). The data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analys is to compare the factor structure of the English and Spanish versions of b oth questionnaires. Results: The factors structure of both questionnaires o btained excellent fit indices across their Spanish versions with the one ex ception that some factors of the FCQ-S were more highly intercorrelated amo ng the Spanish sample than the American. Discussion: This study supports th e conceptualization of food cravings as universal multidimensional motivati onal states that can be reliably measured and supports the use of the Spani sh Versions of the FCQ. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.