Media Effects on the Body Shape Ideal and Bulimic Symptomatology in Males
Description:
This study investigates the impact of sociocultural mediators in relation to eating disorders among male undergraduates. Literature on eating disorders has demonstrated that a thin body shape ideal depicted in the media directly contributes to eating pathology among females, but little research has investigated the direct effects of ideal body shape images among men. The focus of the present investigation was to assess the direct effects of exposure to the ideal male body shape on mens affect,…
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Date:
December 1999
Creator:
Barta, Jonna Lee
Partner:
UNT Libraries