Acculturation and eating disorders in Asian and Caucasian Australian university students

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-219

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Adolescent; Asians; Australians; Eating disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; STUDENTS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745727852     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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