Thin-ideal internalization: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 181-183

  Thompson, J Kevin ^a   Stice, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Eating disturbance; Internalization; Prevention; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035537752     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00144     Document Type: Article

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