Aggressiveness, anger, and hostility in eating disorders

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 364-373

  Miotto, Paola ^a   Pollini, Barbara ^a   Restaneo, Antonietta ^a   Favaretto, Gerardo ^b   Preti, Antonio ^c  

^a ULSS 7   (Italy)

^b ULSS 9   (Italy)

^c Genneruxi Medical Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANGER; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY ATTITUDES TEST; BULIMIA; BULIMIC INVENTORY TEST OF EDINBURGH; BUSS PERRY AGGRESSION QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EATING ATTIUDE TEST; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA NERVOSA; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44749088355     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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