Connections Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Girls' Disordered Eating: Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality as a Mediator

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1128-1138

  Blodgett Salafia, Elizabeth H ^a   Schaefer, Mallary K ^a   Haugen, Emily C ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Disordered eating; Marital conflict; Mothers and fathers; Parent adolescent relationship quality; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903888933     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-013-9771-9     Document Type: Article

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