Media influences on male body image

Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 547-553

  Diedrichs, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00086-9     Document Type: Chapter

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