Development and psychometric evaluation of the Male Body Attitudes Scale (MBAS)

Body Image

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-175

  Tylka, Tracy L ^a   Bergeron, Derek ^a   Schwartz, Jonathan P ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Body image; College men; Height; Low body fat; Muscularity; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344368549     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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