Friendship clique and peer influences on body image concerns, dietary restraint, extreme weight-loss behaviors, and binge eating in adolescent girls

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 255-266

  Paxton, Susan J ^a   Schutz, Helena K ^a   Wertheim, Eleanor H ^b   Muir, Sharryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0033033608     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.2.255     Document Type: Article

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