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Major Article

A social network approach to analyzing body dissatisfaction among sorority members using two network generators

, MEd, , PhD & , PhD, MCHES
Pages 159-167 | Received 13 Dec 2018, Accepted 13 Aug 2019, Published online: 09 Sep 2019

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