Epidemiology of eating disordered symptoms in the Korean general population using a Korean version of the Eating Attitudes Test

Lee, Y H; Rhee, Mary K.; Park, S H; Sohn, Chang-Ho; Chung, Younghae; Hong, S K; Lee, B K; Chang, Pei-Chia; Yoon, A R

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“…[1][2][3] An epidemiological study of eating pathology in South Korea identified rates similar to those found in the West. 4 In a cross-cultural study, Lippincott and Hwang 5 found similar EAT-26 scores in female white students in the United States and female Korean students in Korea. These studies attributed disordered eating in Korean women to Westernization.…”

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“…We obtained data on 937 NK women (mean (SD) age ¼ 22.8 [2.6] years) from a previous study that measured eating attitudes and behaviors in the Korean general population. 4 Participants from the study carried out by Lee and colleagues were selected to match the age of participants recruited in the United States; thus, the groups did not differ significantly in age (p ¼ .52).…”

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Trans‐cultural comparison of disordered eating in Korean women

Jackson

Keel

Lee³

2006

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Trans‐cultural comparison of disordered eating in Korean women

Jackson

Keel

Lee³

2006

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Scores on the Korean EAT-26 were positively related to body dissatisfaction (Y. H. Lee et al, 1998) and body shame (S. Kim et al, 2010) among South Korean women. Cronbach's alphas for EAT-26 items have ranged from .79 to .94 across samples of U.S. women (Kashubeck-West et al, 2001;Mazzeo, 1999), and the value was found to be .80 in a sample of South Korean women (Y. H. Lee et al, 1998); Cronbach's alpha for the current study was .90.…”

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Face consciousness among South Korean women: A culture-specific extension of objectification theory.

Kim¹,

Seo²,

Baek³

2014

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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This study tested key tenets of objectification theory with South Korean women and explored the roles of sexually objectifying media and culture-specific standards of beauty in body image and eating disorder symptoms. Two pilot studies with South Korean college women (n = 40, n = 30) revealed that facial characteristics such as size and shape represent a discrete variable among culture-specific standards of beauty for South Korean women. Results with a sample of 562 South Korean college women indicated that media exposure had significant positive indirect relations with body shame and eating disorder symptoms through the mediating roles of internalization, body surveillance, and face surveillance. Internalization of cultural standards of beauty had significant positive direct relations with body surveillance and face surveillance and had both direct and indirect relations with body shame and eating disorder symptoms. Body and face surveillances had significant positive direct relations with body shame and had indirect relations with eating disorder symptoms. Finally, body shame mediated the links from internalization and surveillance variables to eating disorder symptoms. The results support the applicability of objectification theory as it relates to South Korean women and point to the significance of culture-specific standards of beauty within that framework. These findings could contribute to the broader field of multicultural body image research, with potential implications for therapist practices and training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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“…They also reported that Korean college women scored higher than a comparison sample of Korean-American college women on the dieting and bulimia subscales of the Eating Attitudes Scale (EAT, Garner, Olmstead, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982). Similarly, Lee et al (1998) reported a relatively high level (8.5%) of extreme scores on the EAT in a representative sample of Korean adults. In addition, the incidence of cosmetic surgery appears to be high in Korea (White, 2005).…”

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Multidimensional Assessment of Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating in Korean and US College Women: A Comparative Study

Jung

Forbes

2006

Sex Roles

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Body dissatisfaction was studied in 139 Korean and 102 US college women. Because tumultuous social change has produced marked conflicts between traditional Confucian values and a modern industrial society in which women hold increasing social, political, and economic power, it was hypothesized that Korean college women would have greater body dissatisfaction and more behaviors associated with disordered eating than US college women. As hypothesized, when body size (BMI) was controlled the Korean sample exhibited greater body dissatisfaction than the US sample as measured by the discrepancy between actual and ideal BMI, discrepancies between the participants' bodies and three ideal bodies on the Figural Rating Scale

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Epidemiology of eating disordered symptoms in the Korean general population using a Korean version of the Eating Attitudes Test

Abstract: These results suggest that changes in various sociocultural aspects have increased the risk of developing eating disorders in Korea, and support the sociocultural hypothesis of eating disorders.

Cited by 29 publications

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Trans‐cultural comparison of disordered eating in Korean women

Trans‐cultural comparison of disordered eating in Korean women

Face consciousness among South Korean women: A culture-specific extension of objectification theory.

Multidimensional Assessment of Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating in Korean and US College Women: A Comparative Study

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