Tendency toward deliberate food restriction, fear of fatness and somatic attribution in cross-cultural samples

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-417

  Viernes, Nonna ^a   Zaidan, Ziad A J ^a   Dorvlo, Atsu S S ^a   Kayano, Mami ^b   Yoishiuchi, Kazuhiro ^b   Kumano, Hiroaki ^b   Kuboki, Tomifusa ^b   Al Adawi, Samir ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deliberate food restriction; Euro American; Fat phobia and somatization; Oman; Philippines

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET RESTRICTION; EATING DISORDER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FILIPINO; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OMAN; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOMATIZATION; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DIET, REDUCING; DRIVE; EUROPE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; OMAN; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHILIPPINES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; THINNESS;

EID: 34250838583     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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