Perceived, desired, and actual body image: A comparison of human kinetics and non human kinetics students

Exercise and Women's Health

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-126

  Latter, Kara L ^a   Thompson, Angela M ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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