Weight attitudes in 3- to 5-year-old children: Age differences and cross-sectional predictors

Body Image

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 524-527

  Spiel, Emma C ^a   Paxton, Susan J ^a   Yager, Zali ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body image; Children; Mother; Predictors; Stereotypes; Weight attitudes

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTHERS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 84866868395     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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