Female body dissatisfaction after exposure to overweight and thin media images: The role of body mass index and neuroticism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-51

  Dalley, Simon E ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^a,b   Umit, Turul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Hertford   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Body image dissatisfaction; Body mass index; Contrast; Neuroticism; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649112373     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.044     Document Type: Article

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