Stability of body image concerns among Chinese adolescents: nine-month test-retest reliabilities of the negative physical self scale

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 677-680

  Chen, Hong ^a   Jackson, Todd ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY IMAGE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY IMAGE; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36349032940     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.2.677-680     Document Type: Article

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