Is drive for thinness in anorectic patients associated with personality characteristics?

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 375-379

  Vervaet, Myriam ^a   van Heeringen, C ^a   Audenaert, K ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Personality; Weight concerns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BELGIUM; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY; MOTIVATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; TEMPERAMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 9144244972     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.586     Document Type: Article

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