Male voices on body image

International Journal of Men's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-132

  Bottamini, Gina ^a   Ste Marie, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviors; Body satisfaction; Cross gender interviewing; Male body image; Motivations; Perceptions; Qualitative inquiry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTIVATION; MUSCLE; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSSEXUALISM; VOICE;

EID: 34047145441     PISSN: 15326306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/jmh.0502.109     Document Type: Article

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