Refinement of the Eating and Me Scale: Body image and eating patterns of preadolescent children

Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 29-42

  Tricker, Julie E ^a   Mccabe, Marita P ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; children; disordered eating; scales; self worth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008187742     PISSN: 08165122     EISSN: 18392504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0816512200027243     Document Type: Article

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