Does this make me look fat? Peer crowd and peer contributions to adolescent girls' weight control behaviors

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1097-1110

  MacKey, Eleanor Race ^a   La Greca, Annette M ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Peer crowds; Theory of Reasoned Action; Weight control behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349115111     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-008-9299-2     Document Type: Article

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