83 sexually active college females completed a body-image scale and were classified on the basis of type of contraceptive used arid consistency of contraceptive use. Stepwise discriminant analysis identified sets of body-image items which significantly discriminated among the three groups of contraceptive types and four groups of contraceptive consistency.
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