Black and White Adolescent Females' Perceptions of Ideal Body Size

Journal of School Health

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 112-118

  Parnell, Kathy ^a   Sargent, Roger ^a   Thompson, Sharon H ^b   Duhe, Sonya F ^a   Valois, Robert F ^a   Kemper, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY IMAGE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY IMAGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0030090701     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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