Examination of the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire-3 in a mixed-gender young-adolescent sample

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 352-364

  Wilksch, Simon M ^a   Wade, Tracey D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Internalization; Media; Psychometric properties; Reliability; Risk factors; Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire 3; Thin ideal; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUTCH EATING BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE RESTRAINT SCALE; EATING DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRESSURES AND INTERNALIZATION GENERAL SCALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIOCULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS APPEARANCE QUESTIONNAIRE 3; VALIDITY; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; CULTURE; EATING DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 84866911109     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025618     Document Type: Article

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