A new visual image rating scale for females: Correlations with measures of relative fatness, weight dissatisfaction, and body-esteem

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1075-1084

  Goldberg, Jeanne P ^a   Lenart, Elizabeth B ^b   Bailey, Stephen M ^a   Koff, Elissa ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBESITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SATISFACTION; STUDENT;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBESITY; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES; REFERENCE VALUES; STUDENTS;

EID: 0030158599     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3c.1075     Document Type: Article

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