The superwoman ideal and other risk factors for eating disturbances in adolescent girls

Sex Roles

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 801-810

  Crago, Marjorie ^a   Yates, Alayne ^b   Fleischer, Charles A ^b   Segerstrom, Betty ^b   Gray, Norma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030335207     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01544093     Document Type: Article

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