An attachment insecurity model of negative affect among women seeking treatment for an eating disorder

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-257

  Tasca, Giorgio A ^a,b,c,d   Kowal, John ^a,c   Balfour, Louise ^a,b,c   Ritchie, Kerri ^a,b   Virley, Barbara ^a,b   Bissada, Hany ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attachment theory; Eating disorders; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONTROL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BULIMIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIET, REDUCING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745685549     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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