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Explanations for female excess psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence: evidence from a school-based cohort in the West of Scotland

BACKGROUND: By mid adolescence there is an excess in female physical and/or psychosomatic, as well as psychological morbidity. This paper examines the contribution of a range of factors (self-esteem, body image, gender-role orientation, body mass index, smoking and physical activity) to explaining t...

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Autores principales: Sweeting, Helen N, West, Patrick B, Der, Geoff J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2233615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17953744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-298