Teasing, acculturation, and culture conflict: Psychosocial correlates of body image and eating attitudes among South Asian women

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-53

  Reddy, Sheethal D ^a   Crowther, Janis H ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Body image; Cultural conflict; Eating attitudes; South Asians

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULLYING; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH ASIA; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONTROL; EATING; ETHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846246334     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.13.1.45     Document Type: Article

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