Predictors of body image dissatisfaction in elementary-age school girls

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-122

  Vander Wal, Jillon S ^a   Thelen, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Body Mass Index; Children; Family; Peers; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039768589     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-0153(00)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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