The role of coping responses in the relationship between perceived stress and disordered eating in a cross-cultural sample of female university students

Stress and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 280-291

  Beukes, Magdel ^a   Walker, Stephen ^a   Esterhuyse, Karel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coping responses; Cross cultural; Disordered eating; Female students; Mediator; Moderator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CAUCASIAN; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING RESPONSES INVENTORY; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDER INVENTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; NEGRO; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 77957937836     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1296     Document Type: Article

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