Do children with obesity implicitly identify with sedentariness and fat food?

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-357

  Craeynest, Mietje ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Deforche, Benedicte ^a   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Children; Food; IAT; Identification; Implicit; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SITTING;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTITUDE; CHILD; DIETARY FATS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 33749529293     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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