Intraethnic comparison of eating attitudes in native Koreans and Korean Americans using a Korean translation of the eating attitudes test

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 631-636

  Ko, Christine ^a,b   Cohen, Henry ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Apt 5H ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH KOREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MULTILINGUALISM; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031723115     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199810000-00007     Document Type: Article

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