How do body-dissatisfied and body-satisfied males and females judge the size of thin female celebrities?

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 576-582

  Willinge, Amy ^a   Touyz, Stephen ^a,b   Charles, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Wesley Private Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Body image disturbance; Thin female celebrities

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BODY BUILD; BODY DISSATISFACTION; BODY ESTEEM SCALE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY SATISFACTION; BODY SIZE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; RATING SCALE; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ATTITUDE; BODY WEIGHT; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750340248     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: 1098108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eat.20278     Document Type: Article

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