Food cravings have been implicated in the development and maintenance of a range of
eating-and weight-related pathology. The rapid and accurate assessment of food cravings is
thus critical in clinical and research settings. Existing measures of specific food cravings are
often not suitable for capturing the multiple facets of the craving experience. A short version
of the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T), the most widely used measure of general
food cravings, was recently developed in German and shown to be a one-factorial, internally …

Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate dimensionality and psychometric
properties of the Italian Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-reduced (FCQ-Tr) in a sample of
obese and overweight patients seeking weight loss treatment. Methods Participants were
504 (416 women and 88 men) overweight and obese patients (BMI≥ 25 kg/m 2), and 289
(215 women and 74 men) Italian adults not currently seeking weight loss treatment. All
participants were administered the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) and the …