Children's perceptions of body shape: A thinness bias in pre-adolescent girls and associations with femininity

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 519-536

  Pine, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Body image; Dieting; Femininity; Thinness

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MASCULINITY; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 0035166340     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104501006004006     Document Type: Article

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