Media Influence on Drive for Thinness and Drive for Muscularity

Sex Roles

Volumn 71, Issue 5-8, 2014, Pages 208-218

  Pritchard, Mary ^a   Cramblitt, Brooke ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drive for muscularity; Drive for thinness; Internalized images; Media influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939888355     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-014-0397-1     Document Type: Article

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