Childhood emotional problems and self-perceptions predict weight gain in a longitudinal regression model
Open Access
- 11 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medicine
- Vol. 7 (1), 46
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-7-46
Abstract
Obesity and weight gain are correlated with psychological ill health. We predicted that childhood emotional problems and self-perceptions predict weight gain into adulthood.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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