Discriminant validity of the eating attitudes test according to American psychiatric association and world health organization criteria of eating disorders

Psychological Reports

Volumn 91, Issue 3 PART 2, 2002, Pages 1052-1056

  Canals, Josepa ^a,b   Carbajo, Gentzane ^a   Fernández Ballart, Joan ^b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0036982655     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3f.1052     Document Type: Article

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