How adolescent girls interpret weight-loss advertising

Health Education Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 719-730

  Hobbs, Renee ^a   Broder, Sharon ^a   Pope, Holly ^a   Rowe, Jonelle ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADVERTISING; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33748998466     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyl077     Document Type: Article

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