Impulsive and compulsive traits in eating disordered patients compared with controls

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 707-714

  Claes, Laurence ^a   Vandereycken, Walter ^a   Vertommen, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Impulsiveness; Obsessive compulsive traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442495770     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00071-X     Document Type: Article

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