NetTweens: The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls

Journal of Early Adolescence

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 606-620

  Tiggemann, Marika ^a   Slater, Amy ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

body image; Facebook; internalization of thin ideals; Internet; media exposure; preadolescents; social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900482283     PISSN: 02724316     EISSN: 15525449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272431613501083     Document Type: Article

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