Eating Disorders in Women of Color

Gilbert, S. C.

doi:10.1093/clipsy/bpg045

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“…1,3 As previously noted, Blacks have been reported to prefer larger body sizes but to identify themselves as being thinner than they are. 4,5 As Blacks viewed themselves as thinner than their actual size, compensatory behaviors (e.g., binging and purging) might be practiced less frequently by Blacks than Whites.…”

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Classification and Correlates of Eating Disorders among Blacks: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

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Objective To assess classification adjustments and examine correlates of eating disorders among Blacks. Method The National Survey of American Life (NSAL) was conducted from 2001–2003 and consisted of adults (n= 5,191) and adolescents (n = 1,170). The World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI-World Health Organization 2004-modified) and DSM-IV-TR eating disorder criteria were used. Results Sixty-six percent of African American and 59% Caribbean Black adults were overweight or obese, while 30% and 29% of adolescents were overweight or obese. Although lifetime rates of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were low, binge eating disorder was high for both ethnic groups among adults and adolescents. Eliminating certain classification criteria resulted in higher rates of eating disorders for all groups. Conclusion Culturally sensitive criteria should be incorporated into future versions of Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) classifications for eating disorders that consider within group ethnic variations.

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“…1,2 This paper provides data to expand the emerging knowledge base on African Americans and Caribbean Blacks and eating disorders. Both the approach to classification and potential correlates are important to understand ethnic variations in eating disorders.…”

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Classification and Correlates of Eating Disorders among Blacks: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

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“…has early roots in research bias that excluded women of color in early investigations charting the course of eating disorders (Gilbert, 2003). It therefore follows that the limited information available about the unique experiences of ethnic women hinders clinical awareness of the multiple and culturally diverse perspectives of eating disorder etiology.…”

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“…It is frequently speculated that women of color are protected from a desire to lose weight and are more capable than Anglo women of resisting dominant American standards of beauty (Gilbert, 2003). This myth was shaped by the long-lived idea that eating disorders are a culturebound syndrome, which suggested individuals from non-Western societies had immunity to eating disorder pathology (Gordon, Perez, & Joiner, 2002;Lai, 2000).…”

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Crossing the Color Line

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Diversification continues to change the landscape of therapeutic practice for the treatment of eating disorders, and challenges myths that the illness primarily afflicts upper middle-class college-age White women driven toward American images of slenderness (Gordon, Perez, & Joiner, 2002). However, researchers have more recently begun to explore eating disorder etiology amongst ethnic groups, and are increasingly aware that women from non-western origins including Latin and African cultures suffer (Gordon, 2001), as well as from such places as

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“…Eating disorders remain significant and well-recognized problems in the United States and other western cultures (1-3). Body dissatisfaction, a state of troubled, negative feelings about the size or shape of one's body (4), has been shown to be associated with likelihood of eating disorders (5-7).…”

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The relation of body dissatisfaction to salience of particular body sizes

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Objective-Research examining body image schemas has found that individuals high in body dissatisfaction direct increased attention toward body shapes relative to neutral stimuli. However, it is not known whether attention is attracted to particular body shapes over others (e.g., thin or obese). The present study examined whether body dissatisfaction would moderate the extent to which women find thin, average, and/or obese body sizes salient.Method-Women with high and low body dissatisfaction (N=32) completed an indirect cognitive task assessing the relative salience of different body sizes (thin, average, obese).Results-Degree of body dissatisfaction was inversely related to frequency estimates of obese body sizes; highly dissatisfied participants found obese body sizes less salient.Conclusion-These results highlight the importance of examining the salience of specific body sizes. The present study has implications for understanding cognitive aspects of social comparison and body dissatisfaction.

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Eating Disorders in Women of Color

Cited by 12 publications

References 57 publications

Classification and Correlates of Eating Disorders among Blacks: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

Classification and Correlates of Eating Disorders among Blacks: Findings from the National Survey of American Life

Crossing the Color Line

The relation of body dissatisfaction to salience of particular body sizes

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