Links between psychosocial variables and body dissatisfaction in homosexual men: Differential relations with the drive for muscularity and the drive for thinness

International Journal of Men's Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-136

  Hunt, Christopher John ^a   Gonsalkorale, Karen ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Community involvement; Homosexual men; Muscularity; Thinness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY DISSATISFACTION; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNITY; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIGMA; STRESS;

EID: 84866754198     PISSN: 15326306     EISSN: 19330278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/jmh.1102.127     Document Type: Article

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