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Autor/in | Collins, M. Elizabeth |
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Titel | Education for a Healthy Body Weight: Helping Adolescents Balance the Cultural Pressure for Thinness. |
Quelle | In: Journal of School Health, 58 (1988) 6, S.227-31Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0022-4391 |
Schlagwörter | Adolescents; Anorexia Nervosa; Body Weight; Bulimia; Females; Health Promotion; Mass Media Effects; Physical Attractiveness; Secondary Education; Social Values |
Abstract | The article examines cultural pressure for extreme thinness in the United States and its impact as a possible predisposing factor for developing eating disorders among adolescent females. Preventive strategies are recommended to help adolescents balance this pressure and their own desire for attractiveness within the larger context of good health. (Author/CB) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2004/1/01 |