Muscularity and the gay ideal: Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in homosexual men

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-116

  Yelland, Christine ^a   Tiggemann, Marika ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Disordered eating; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY BUILDING; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0038756486     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-0153(03)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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