Body-image attitudes: What difference does gender make?

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1438-1452

  Muth, Jennifer L ^b   Cash, Thomas F ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031575177     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01607.x     Document Type: Article

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