Feeling Bad About Feel-Good Ads: The Emotional and Body-Image Ramifications of Body-Positive Media

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 101-111

  Kraus, Ashley ^a   Myrick, Jessica Gall ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body Positive Media; Discrete Emotion; Thin Ideal Internalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031490875     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2017.1383233     Document Type: Article

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