Sociocultural pressures and body image disturbances: A comment on Cafri, Yamamiya, Brannick, and Thompson

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 443-446

  Stice, Eric ^a,b   Tristan, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Body dissatisfaction; Body image; Eating disorder; Eating pathology; Internalization; Media; Perceived pressures; Sociocultural

Indexed keywords

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 28744455259     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: 14682850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clipsy/bpi056     Document Type: Note

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