Body checking and avoidance in women: Associations with mental and physical health-related quality of life

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 386-389

  Latner, Janet D ^a   Mond, Jonathan M ^b   Vallance, Joanna K ^c   Gleaves, David H ^d   Buckett, Geoffrey ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e The Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body avoidance; Body checking; Eating disorders; Functional impairment; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY IMAGE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; WOMEN;

EID: 84868324621     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: 18737358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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