Do Appearance Focused Cognitive Distortions Moderate the Relationship between Social Comparisons to Peers and Media Images and Body Image Disturbance?

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 491-505

  Ridolfi, Danielle R ^a   Myers, Taryn A ^a   Crowther, Janis H ^a   Ciesla, Jeffery A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Social comparison; Sociocultural pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053568463     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9961-0     Document Type: Article

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