Graduate students' social and emotional functioning relative to characteristics of eating disorders

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 425-452

  Grabarek, Christina ^a   Cooper, Stewart ^a  

^a VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Drive for muscularity; Drive for thinness; Eating disorders; Graduate students

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRIVE; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOTYPE; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BODY IMAGE; DRIVE; EATING DISORDERS; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOTYPES; STUDENTS; THINNESS;

EID: 58149173996     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.135.4.425-452     Document Type: Article

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