Physique attitudes and self-presentational concerns: Exploratory interviews with female group aerobic exercisers and instructors

Sex Roles

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 189-199

  Greenleaf, Christy ^a   McGreer, Rosemary ^b   Parham, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b YMCA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Females; Social physique anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746396366     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9337-4     Document Type: Review

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