Associations between trait emotional intelligence, actual-ideal weight discrepancy, and positive body image

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-489

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Begum, Salma ^a   Petrides, K V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body appreciation; Body dissatisfaction; Emotional intelligence; TEIQue; Weight discrepancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954217553     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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