Complex messages regarding a thin ideal appearing in teenage girls' magazines from 1956 to 2005

Body Image

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-136

  Luff, Gina M ^a   Gray, James J ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Media; Thin ideal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; OBESITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNICATION; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; OBESITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61449209737     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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