Eating Attitudes Test and culture: A study in northern and southern Italy

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-94

  Ruggiero G M ^a,b   Mantero, M ^a   Asti, M ^a   Agostinelli, M L ^a   Casaccio, F ^a   Garghentini P G ^b   Gozzini, C ^a   Zita, G ^a   Penati, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Maria Bianca Corno per la Lotta Contro l'Anoressia Sede di Monza   (Italy)

Author keywords

EAT 26; Eating disorders; Intracultural comparison; Northern Italy; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033140225     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03339723     Document Type: Article

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