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Michelman, John D.; And Others – Adolescence, 1991
Investigated dress and body markings of 100 hospitalized and never-hospitalized adolescent psychiatric patients using in-depth interviews. Found that hospitalized patients had higher incidence of self-scarring, but other individual expressions of appearance did not differentiate two groups. Suggests that dress and appearance observations,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Clothing, Hospitalized Children