Psychological and physical correlates of disordered eating in male and female Turkish college students

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 551-557

  Erol, Atila ^a   Toprak, Gulser ^b   Yazici, Fadime ^c  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Clinics of Psychiatry   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Body mass; Depression; Eating disorder; Gender; Obsession; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TURKEY;

EID: 33748369337     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01557.x     Document Type: Article

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