Sex differences in body satisfaction, feeling fat and pressure to diet among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 347-358

  Lam, T H ^a   Stewart, Sunita Mahtani ^a,b   Leung, Gabriel ^a   Ho, S Y ^a   Fan, Alex Hoi ^a   Ma, Alison L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BOY; CALCULATION; CHINESE; DIET; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GIRL; HIGH SCHOOL; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036714885     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.480     Document Type: Article

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