Drive for thinness and fear of fat: Separate yet related constructs?

Eating Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-234

  Levitt, Dana Heller ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY FAT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EATING DISORDER; FEAR; GROUP THERAPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0042921414     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640260390218729     Document Type: Article

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