Are individuals with an eating disorder less sensitive to aesthetic flaws than healthy controls?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-95

  Legenbauer, Tanja ^a,b   Kleinstäuber, Maria ^a   Müller, Thomas ^c   Stangier, Ulrich ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Germany)

^c DRK Schmerz Zentrum Mainz   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetic perception; Body image disturbances; Eating disorders; Slender ideal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; ESTHETICS; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BEAUTY; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA NERVOSA; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONTROL GROUPS; DRIVE; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBESITY; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHYSIOGNOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINNESS;

EID: 45849133034     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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