Correlates of the Drive for Thinness in Young Female Adolescents
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
- Vol. 16 (4) , 313-319
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp1604_4
Abstract
The core feature of anorexia nervosa is considered to be a drive for thinness. In order to try to identify personal and familial correlates of this drive, I studied 68 nonclinic girls ranging in ag...Keywords
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