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| Title: | Eating Disorders in Adult Women
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| Author: | Julian Fuchs & Finn Lang (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1604566736 : 9781604566734 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - September 2008 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | Eating disorders |
Recent decades have seen a rise in the prevalence of eating disorders, especially among emerging adult women. The aetiology and development of these disorders involve numerous biological, psychological, and familial factors that extend beyond adolescence into emerging adulthood. This book provides leading research in this particular field.
Preface; Communication and Disordered Eating Patterns; The Possible Link Between the Female Puberty and the Eating Disorders Onset; Modern Holy Anorexia: How Advertising Explores and Disseminates Ascetic Ideals; An Integrative Perspective Over Dissociation and Eating Disorders in Women; The Experience of Mexican Eating Disordered Patients: An Approach from a Gender Perspective; The Impact of Media Influences on Disordered Eating Behavior; Physical Activity Contexts and Social Physique Anxiety Social Physique Anxiety across Physical Activity Contexts: A Meta-analytic Review; Is Restrained Eating a Risk Factor in Women Executives; Actual -- Desired BMI Discrepancy, Body Dissatisfaction and Self Concept in Women with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder; Index.
