Media effects on expectancies: Exposure to realistic female images as a protective factor

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 394-397

  Fister, Suzannah M ^a   Smith, Gregory T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASS MEDIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REINFORCEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; EATING DISORDERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS; THINNESS;

EID: 11144229235     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.18.4.394     Document Type: Article

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