Perception of threat from emotions and its role in poor emotional expression within eating pathology

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 336-347

  Ioannou, Korina ^a   Fox, John R E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Cheadle Royal Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger; Eating disorders; Emotional expression; Perception of threat from emotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA NERVOSA; EATING DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70450161290     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.632     Document Type: Article

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