Eating and body image concerns among average-weight and obese African American and Hispanic girls

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-187

  Vander Wal, Jillon S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Children; Eating disorders; Obesity; Peers

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 1842781891     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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