Acculturation and eating disorders in Asian and Caucasian Australian adolescent girls

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-61

  Jennings, Piangchai S ^a   Forbes, David ^a   McDermott, Brett ^a,b   Juniper, Sato ^a   Hulse, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Adolescent; Asian; Australian; Eating disorders

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION INDEX; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET RESTRICTION; DISTRUST; EATING ATTITUDES TEST; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDERS INVENTORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MATURITY; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL SECURITY; TRUST;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STATISTICS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 14644387442     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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