‘Strong is the new skinny’: A content analysis of #fitspiration images on Instagram

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of Health Psychology

• Publication date

  2018-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1359105316639436PMID 27611630
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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