Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Compare Implicit Pro-Thin/Anti-Fat Attitudes of Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Non-Clinical Controls

Eating Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-143

  Parling, Thomas ^a   Cernvall, Martin ^b   Stewart, Ian ^c   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^d   Ghaderi, Ata ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; IMPLICIT RELATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOTYPES; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858402942     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640266.2012.654056     Document Type: Article

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