Highly successful weight control by formerly obese adolescents: A qualitative test of the healthy obsession model

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 455-465

  Gierut, Kristen J ^a,b   Pecora, Kristina M ^b   Kirschenbaum, Daniel S ^b,c  

^a ARGOSY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wellspring   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GUILT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); ATTITUDE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GOALS; GUILT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84867552902     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2012.0101     Document Type: Article

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