Food Acceptance and Awareness Questionnaire (FAAQ) Test

For readers who want to understand their responses to cravings rather than simply suppress them, the Food Acceptance and Awareness Questionnaire (FAAQ) Test examines acceptance, purposeful eating choices, and awareness of eating-related motives. As a food acceptance questionnaire, it can clarify whether difficult thoughts and urges disrupt healthy intentions or coexist with valued action.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions ask how cravings, emotions, and anxious thoughts relate to eating choices. The dimensions distinguish openness to these experiences from the ability to act on valued health goals. In practice, this food acceptance and awareness questionnaire presents three related scores:

• Acceptance (4-28) measures openness to cravings, emotions, and physiological experiences without controlling or avoiding them: Low acceptance 4-12; Moderate acceptance 13-20; High acceptance 21-28.
• Commitment (6-42) measures choosing valued healthy-eating or weight-control actions despite anxious thoughts and feelings: Low aspiration 6-17; Moderate aspiration 18-30; High aspiration 31-42.
• Food Acceptance and Awareness (10-70) reflects overall mindfulness and acceptance related to eating, with higher scores indicating greater acceptance and awareness of eating habits and motivations: Low acceptance & awareness 10-33; Moderate acceptance & awareness 34-51; High acceptance & awareness 52-70.

Together, these scores show how acceptance and awareness relate to committed eating behavior.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each statement uses a seven-point self-report continuum from Very rarely true to Always true. The wording asks whether urges and thoughts can be present without requiring their removal before a healthier choice. Answers feed the displayed dimension scores. The questionnaire does not specify item weights or a reverse-scoring rule, so response labels alone cannot be used to reconstruct points.

This is an acceptance-based self-report approach. It is conceptually consistent with FAAQ (Juarascio et al., 2011), which examined acceptance and action around food cravings. Validation in a weight-loss-seeking sample by Burton Murray and colleagues (2022), and Spanish validation by Manchón, Quiles, and López-Roig (2021), offer related evidence for the construct, but do not establish identical wording, norms, or psychometric performance for this online form.

Use the result as an eating awareness assessment of current tendencies. Mood, recent eating experiences, self-awareness, and socially desirable responding can affect answers, while the displayed bands are interpretive categories rather than independently established population norms.