Agentic and communal personality traits: Relations to disordered eating behavior, body shape concern, and depressive symptoms

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-500

  Mosher, Catherine E ^a   Danoff Burg, Sharon ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating; Gender; Personality; Unmitigated agency; Unmitigated communion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; BODY IMAGE; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54549124708     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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