For your health? The relationship between magazine reading and adolescents' body image and eating disturbances

Sex Roles

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 389-399

  Botta, Renée A ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body image; Eating disorders; Magazines; Social comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038027083     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023570326812     Document Type: Article

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