The Effect of School Environment on Body Concerns in Adolescent Women.

Dyer, Geraldine; Tiggeman, Marika

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ERIC Number: EJ525483

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1996

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The Effect of School Environment on Body Concerns in Adolescent Women.

Dyer, Geraldine; Tiggeman, Marika

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, v34 n1-2 p127-38 Jan 1996

Investigated body figure preferences, eating disorder symptomatology, and role concerns in 142 Australian Caucasian adolescent girls in private single-sex and private coeducational schools. Reasons girls in the single-sex school had a thinner ideal figure and displayed more eating disorder patterns than those in the coeducational school are explored. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Context Effect, Eating Disorders, Educational Environment, Females, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Physical Attractiveness, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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