Complexities of measuring perfectionism: Three popular perfectionism measures and their relations with eating disturbances and health behaviors in a female college student sample

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-110

  Chang, Edward C ^a   Ivezaj, Valentina ^a   Downey, Christina A ^a   Kashima, Yuri ^a   Morady, Aviva R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Eating behaviors; Health behaviors; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDERS INVENTORY PERFECTIONISM SCALE; FEMALE; FROST MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERFECTIONISM SCALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERFECTIONISM SCALE; PERFECTIONISM; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 37349119285     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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