Comparison of 10- to 12-year-old boys and girls using a Spanish version of the children's eating attitudes test

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 947-957

  Senra, Carmen ^a   Seoane, Gloria ^a   Vilas, Vanessa ^a   Sanchez Cao E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boys; ChEAT; Eating problems; Girls

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846475036     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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