Misperceptions of body shape among university students from Germany and Lithuania

Health Education

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-121

  Stock, Christiane ^a   Kücük, Nazan ^b   Miseviciene, Irena ^c   Petkeviciene, Janina ^c   Krämer, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Gender; Human anatomy; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992947984     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654280410525559     Document Type: Article

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