Relationships among loneliness, interpersonal dependency, and disordered eating in young adults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-346

  Pritchard, Mary E ^a   Yalch, Kyra L ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disordered eating; Interpersonal dependency; Loneliness; Mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149107216     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.027     Document Type: Article

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