Predictors of women’s concern with body weight: The roles of perceived self-media ideal discrepancies and self-esteem

Eating Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-160

  Posavac, Steven S ^a   Posavac, Heidi D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PREDICTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; THEORY;

EID: 0036269612     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.462     Document Type: Article

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