Social comparison in the eating disorders

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 553-555

  Morrison, Tamara ^a,b   Waller, Glenn ^a,b,c,h   Meyer, Caroline ^d   Burditt, Emily ^c,e   Wright, Fiona ^a,b,c   Babbs, Michelle ^c,f   Gilbert, Nicola ^g  

^a North East London Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH WEST LONDON AND ST GEORGE'S MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; COGNITION; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041837559     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000082186.34597.66     Document Type: Article

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