The Sociocultural Internalization of Appearance Questionnaire - Adolescents (SIAQ-A): Psychometric analysis and normative data for three countries

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-61

  Keery, H ^a   Shroff, H ^a   Thompson, J K ^a   Wertheim, E ^b   Smolak, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Cross cultural; Eating disturbance; Internalization; Media

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344683878     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03325046     Document Type: Article

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