Relationships between body-shape discrepancies with favored celebrities and disordered eating in young women

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1364-1377

  Shorter, Louise ^a   Brown, Stephen L ^b   Quinton, Stephanie J ^a   Hinton, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 42149101358     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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