Culture-specific influences on body image and eating distress in a sample of urban Bulgarian women: The roles of faith and traditional fasting

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 386-389

  Angelova, Rosa Angelova ^a   Utermohlen, Virginia ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Bulgarian women; Culture specific factors; Eating disorder symptomatology; Faith; Traditional fasting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BULGARIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; FAITH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRADITIONAL FASTING; URBAN POPULATION; WEIGHT CONTROL;

BODY DISSATISFACTION; BULGARIAN WOMEN; CULTURE-SPECIFIC FACTORS; EATING DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY; FAITH; TRADITIONAL FASTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY IMAGE; BULGARIA; CULTURE; EATING DISORDERS; FASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881024559     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: 18737358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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