Measurement of the perceptual aspects of body image

Body Image: Perceptions, Interpretations and Attitudes

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-102

  Gardner, Rick M ^a   Brown, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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