What women think about their husbands' opinions might influence women's body image: An explorative study

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 98-104

  Sotoudeh, Gity ^a   Khosravi, Shahla ^a   Karbakhsh, Mojgan ^a   Khajehnasiri, Farahnaz ^a   Khalkhali, Hamid ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Husbands; Weight status; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SPOUSE;

EID: 41849114103     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: 19983654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.39612     Document Type: Article

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