Adolescents' exposure to a sexualized media environment and their notions of women as sex objects

Sex Roles

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 381-395

  Peter, Jochen ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Internet; Magazines; Pornography; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847748233     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9176-y     Document Type: Article

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