Objective: to investigate age and gender effects on body ยฎgure perceptions in a nonreferred preadolescent and young adolescent population. Method: self-ratings of body shape, choices of current ideal body shape and choices of ideal older adolescent body shape from a range of line drawings of ยฎgures
Body figure perceptions and preferences among preadolescent children
โ Scribed by Collins, M. Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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