Psychological need satisfaction, control, and disordered eating.
Objectives Unfulfilled basic psychological needs have been associated with disordered eating behaviours, but the mechanisms underlying that associations are not well understood. This study examined a two-stage path model linking basic psychological need satisfaction to disordered eating behaviours v...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 53 - 69 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2017
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