Body size dissatisfaction and avoidance behavior: How gender, age, ethnicity, and relative clothing size predict what some won't try

Body Image

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-368

  Maphis, Laura E ^a,b   Martz, Denise M ^a   Bergman, Shawn S ^a   Curtin, Lisa A ^a   Webb, Rose Mary ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Body image; Body mass index; Relative size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CAUCASIAN; CLOTHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CLOTHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878570444     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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