The impact of exposure to the thin-ideal media image on women

Eating Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-50

  Hawkins, Nicole ^a   Scott Richards, P ^b   Granley, H Mac ^a   Stein, David M ^c  

^a Center for Change   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; EXPERIMENTATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; MOOD DISORDER; PHOTOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; SATISFACTION; SELF ESTEEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 1542620767     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640260490267751     Document Type: Article

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