Self-concept and health status in elementary-school-aged children

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-101

  Overbay, Jane Dring ^a,b   Purath, Janet ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 1337 Johnson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0031107942     PISSN: 01460862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01460869709026880     Document Type: Article

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