Understanding self-directed stigma: Development of the weight bias internalization scale

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Durso, Laura E ^a   Latner, Janet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 55349129591     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.448     Document Type: Article

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