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The genetic epidemiology of body attitudes, the attitudinal component of body image in women.

Psychological medicine - 1 Nov 2003

Wade T D, Wilkinson J, Ben-Tovim D

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BACKGROUND: There were four purposes of the current study, including the investigation of the: (i) adequacy of a multidimensional measure of body image; (ii) genetic and environmental epidemiology of this measure; (iii) shared variance between genetic and environmental risk factors for body mass index (BMI) and body image; and (iv) Equal Environment Assumption (EEA) as it related to body attitudes. METHOD: Six...

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PMID: 14672248
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291703008572

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