A Preliminary Investigation of Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Symptomatology with Bisexual Individuals

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 533-547

  Davids, Christopher M ^b   Green, Melinda A ^a  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisexual men and women; Body dissatisfaction; Eating disorder symptomatology; Gender; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053571768     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9963-y     Document Type: Article

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