Exploring predictors of eating behaviour among adolescents by gender and socio-economic status

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 671-681

  Lien, Nanna ^a   Jacobs, David R ^a,b   Klepp, Knut Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Eating behaviour; Gender; Longitudinal; Socio economic status; Theory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY SUCROSE; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0036791983     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002334     Document Type: Article

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