Drive for leanness: Assessment and relationship to gender, gender role and objectification

Body Image

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-260

  Smolak, Linda ^a   Murnen, Sarah K ^a  

^a KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drive for leanness; Drive for muscularity; Drive for thinness; Gender roles; Objectification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DRIVE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOMATOTYPE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; DRIVE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOTYPES; THINNESS;

EID: 47849084568     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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