A comprehensive investigation of putative correlates of bulimia among college-age women: Object relations, dependency, ego defenses, trait anxiety, and depression

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-55

  Zborowski, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EGO STRENGTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BULIMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 0031984442     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4603(97)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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