Social anxiety and social comparison: Differential links with restrictive and bulimic attitudes among nonclinical women

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 257-264

  Gilbert, Nicola ^a   Meyer, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Social anxiety; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDER; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0038102687     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-0153(03)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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