Examining Prospective Mediation Models of Body Surveillance, Trait Anxiety, and Body Dissatisfaction in African American and Caucasian College Women

Sex Roles

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 187-200

  Fitzsimmons Craft, Ellen E ^a   Bardone Cone, Anna M ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Body dissatisfaction; Body surveillance; Race ethnicity; Self objectification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863102489     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0151-5     Document Type: Article

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