The roles of ethnicity and culture in the development of eating disturbance and body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 521-551

  Wildes, Jennifer E ^a,b   Emery, Robert E ^a   Simons, Anne D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Culture; Eating disorders; Ethnicity; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY BUILD; BULIMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; EATING DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODEL; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SATISFACTION; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034987115     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7358(99)00071-9     Document Type: Review

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