Racial differences in women's desires to be thin

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 191-195

  Powell, Andrea D ^a   Kahn, Arnold S ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lames Madison University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

BLACKS; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; WHITES; WOMEN;

EID: 0028941820     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: 1098108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-108X(199503)17:2<191::AID-EAT2260170213>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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