Dimensions of control in bulimia and anorexia nervosa: Internal control, desire for control, or fear of losing self-control?

Eating Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-71

  Tiggemann, Marika ^a   Raven, Melissa ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85010897936     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640269808249248     Document Type: Article

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