The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric Features and Clinical Correlates

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1982, Pages 871-878

  Garner, David M ^b   Bohr, Yvonne ^a   Garfinkel, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Departments of Psychiatry   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; EATING DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0020398194     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700049163     Document Type: Article

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