Self-reported versus measured weight and height by adolescent girls: A Croatian sample

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-82

  Ambrosi Randić, Neala ^a   Bulian, Alessandra Pokrajac ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBESITY; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF DISCLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROATIA; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVERWEIGHT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 34247468388     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.104.1.79-82     Document Type: Article

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