Psychologic correlates of eating attitudes in Turkish female college students

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-194

  Celikel, Feryal Cam ^a,c   Cumurcu, Birgul Elbozan ^a,c   Koc, Medine ^b,c   Etikan, Ilker ^a,c   Yucel, Basak ^a,c  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDER; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BODY MASS INDEX; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS; TURKEY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 38549142585     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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