Explicit and implicit anti-fat attitudes in children and their relationships with their body images

Obesity Facts

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Solbes, Irene ^a   Enesco, Ileana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body image; Children; Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes; Overweight

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 77949353734     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000280417     Document Type: Article

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