Adolescent Overweight, Social Relationships and the Transition to First Sex: Gender and Racial Variations

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-15

  Alice Cheng, Yen hsin ^a   Landale, Nancy S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COITUS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEER GROUP; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952467202     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: 19312393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/4300611     Document Type: Article

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