Body Image and Eating Disturbances Across Ethnic Groups: More Similarities Than Differences. |
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Authors: | Shaw, Heather Ramirez, Lisa Trost, Ariel Randall, Pat Stice, Eric |
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Abstract: | Sociocultural models of eating pathology posit that ethnic minority groups should show fewer eating disturbances than Whites. Thus, the authors tested whether there were ethnic differences in eating disorder symptoms and risk factors for eating pathology and whether the relations between risk factors and eating pathology differed across ethnic groups, with data from adolescent and adult females (N = 785). Only 1 of the 14 tests of main effect differences between ethnic groups was significant and none of the 49 tests of whether ethnicity moderated the relations of risk factors to eating pathology were significant. Findings provide little support for the hypothesized ethnic differences in eating disturbances and suggest that ethnic minority groups have reached parity with Whites in this domain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | body image eating disturbances cross ethnic similarities eating pathology ethnic minorities Whites risk factors adult females ethnic differences symptoms adolescent girls |
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