Psychological discriminators of subjects at different stages of the eating disturbed spectrum

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 917-929

  Bennett, Derrick A ^a,c   Cooper, Cary L ^b  

^a University of Auckland Clinical Trials Research Unit   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping styles; Eating disturbance; Life events; Personality; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346448151     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00083-0     Document Type: Article

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