The 10-item DEBQ Restrained Eating Scale (DRES; van Strien et al., 1986) inquires about restraint (i.e., eating and intending to eat less than he/she would like to eat) during the past week using the same 5-point rating scale described above for the DEBQ Emotional Eating scale. The DRES has demonstrated excellent internal consistency in this (α = .95) and other samples (α = .95; van Strien et al., 1986), as well as high test-retest reliability over a 10-month period (r = .71; Stice et al., 2001).
