Impulsivity mediates the association between borderline personality pathology and body mass index

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-104

  Iacovino, Juliette M ^a   Powers, Abigail D ^a   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective instability; Body mass index; Borderline personality disorder; Emotion dysregulation; Impulsivity; Inhibitory control; Obesity; Personality pathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885468722     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.028     Document Type: Article

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