Religiosity and obesity: Are overweight people more religious?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1119-1123

  Ellis, Lee ^a   Biglione, David ^a  

^a MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Obesity; Religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034196559     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00161-0     Document Type: Article

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