Relationships between personality, attitudes and dietary behaviour in a group of Scottish adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1753-1764

  MacNicol, Sarah A M ^a   Murray, Suzanne M ^a   Austin, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Dietary behaviour; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142153712     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00404-X     Document Type: Article

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