The relationship of weight-related attitudes with suicidal behaviors in Korean adolescents

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2145-2151

  Kim, Jun Su ^a   Lee, Kayoung ^a  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; THINNESS;

EID: 78049313130     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.62     Document Type: Article

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