Clustering of psychosocial symptoms in overweight children

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-125

  Gibson, Lisa Y ^a   Byrne, Susan M ^a   Blair, Eve ^a   Davis, Elizabeth A ^b   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Zubrick, Stephen R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Child; Overweight; Psychology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL STRESS; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 38349162805     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701787560     Document Type: Article

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