Body checking and avoidance in ethnically diverse female college students

Body Image

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 583-590

  White, Emily K ^a   Warren, Cortney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body avoidance; Body checking; Clinical impairment; Eating pathology; Ethnicity; Thin ideal internalization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY AVOIDANCE; BODY CHECKING; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL IMPAIRMENT; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EATING DISORDER; EATING PATHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; STUDENT; THIN-IDEAL INTERNALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BODY AVOIDANCE; BODY CHECKING; CLINICAL IMPAIRMENT; EATING PATHOLOGY; ETHNICITY; THIN-IDEAL INTERNALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS; THINNESS; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884530365     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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