Gender Comparisons of Fat Talk in the United Kingdom and the United States

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 557-565

  Payne, Lucinda O ^a,b   Martz, Denise M ^a   Tompkins, K Brooke ^a   Petroff, Anna B ^a   Farrow, Claire V ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparisons; Fat talk; Gender; Self accepting and positive body talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053569165     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9881-4     Document Type: Article

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