Adolescent girls’ first diets: Triggers and the role of multiple dimensions of self-concept

Eating Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-270

  Muir, Sharryn L ^a   Wertheim, Eleanor H ^a   Paxton, Susan J ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0001178150     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640269908251198     Document Type: Article

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