Drive for Muscularity and Drive for Thinness: The Impact of Pro-Anorexia Websites

Eating Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-112

  Juarez, Lilia ^a   Soto, Ernesto ^a   Pritchard, Mary E ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRIVE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MOTIVATION; MUSCLE MASS; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; WEB BROWSER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; DRIVE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERNET; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; SOCIAL VALUES; SOMATOTYPES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858393461     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640266.2012.653944     Document Type: Article

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