Prolific 2022 - “questions about emotions, eating behavior, symptoms of anxiety, depression, and disordered eating.”

423 participants were recruited, of whom 29 (6.9%) were excluded for failing one or more of six embedded attention checks or completing the survey in less than 25 minutes (the bottom 10th percentile of response times), and 5 (1.2%) were excluded for missing data on one or more of the attention checks, resulting in a final sample size of 389. Sixty two percent of participants (n = 241) were women, 129 (33.2%) were men, and 19 (4.9%) were nonbinary.

Of the full sample, 20 (5.1%) identified as transgender and 5 (1.3%) preferred not to disclose whether they were cis or transgender. Participants’ mean age was 37.42 years (SD = 12.84, range 18-74). Most described their race as White (69.4%), 10.5% identified as Black, 8.7% as multiracial, 3.4% as Asian, and 6.4% as Hispanic; 1.5% either did not report their race or described their race as “other.” No participant identified as Native American.