Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 303-307

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Yang, Hongfei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Eating disorder symptoms; General perfectionism; Physical appearance perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933529589     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.032     Document Type: Article

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