Positive body image: Inter-ethnic and rural-urban differences among an indigenous sample from Malaysian Borneo

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 568-576

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Kannan, Kumaraswami ^c   Furnham, Adrian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c Department of Psychiatry   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body appreciation; indigenous; Malaysia; positive body image; rural urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY IMAGE; BORNEO; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY IMAGE; BORNEO; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84868089477     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764011415208     Document Type: Article

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