Examining appearance pressures, thinness and muscularity internalizations, and social comparisons as correlates of drive for muscularity and thinness-oriented disordered eating in Chinese heterosexual men and women: Testing an integrated model

Examining an integrated sociocultural and objectification model of thinness‐ and muscularity‐oriented disordered eating in Chinese older men and women

“…The present study tested an integrated model of disordered eating in the Chinese context based on the tripartite influence theory, objectification theory, and social comparison theory (see Figure 1). This integrated model is consistent with burgeoning research on eating and body image disturbances which suggests that integrated models describe a greater amount of variance than examining such models in isolation (e.g., Barnhart, Cui, et al, 2022;Barnhart, Sun, et al, 2022;Convertino et al, 2021;Frederick, Tylka, Rodgers, Penneis, et al, 2022). Furthermore, integrated models allow for a more nuanced understanding of unique relations across study variables, findings that provide a greater level of detail relevant to eating and body image researchers and clinicians alike.…”

“…Yet, very little research has tested prominent disordered eating theories in Chinese older adults (e.g., He, Zhao, et al, 2021). The tripartite influence, objectification, and social comparison theories have garnered empirical support globally, including in the Chinese context (e.g., Barnhart, Cui, et al, 2022;Barnhart, Sun, et al, 2022;Zheng & Sun, 2017)…”

“…Since the models proposed were complex, according to Matsunaga (2008), item parceling strategy (Hall et al, 1999) was used as item parceling gives various benefits for complex models (e.g., stability of parameter estimates). Therefore, consistent with previous research (e.g., Barnhart, Cui, et al, 2022;Barnhart, Sun, et al, 2022;Convertino et al, 2021;Strübel et al, 2020;Tylka, 2011), parcels for each latent variable were created with an exploratory factor analysis. Next, we examined the measurement model and then the structural model, adjusting for theoretically-relevant variables of age and BMI (Grogan, 2021), to determine the path coefficients for the proposed model.…”

Transgender congruence, body appreciation, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating in Chinese transgender adults

“…In addition to these unique stressors bound to sexual and gender minority status, the prevalence of disordered eating and clinical eating disorders (ED) in China is like that observed in the West (e.g., Tong et al, 2014). Perhaps not surprisingly, similar beauty standards evidenced in the West (e.g., thinness and muscularity as body image ideals) are also observed in Chinese contexts (Wu et al, 2021;Yeung et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2018), findings supported by recent research replicating and extending sociocultural models of eating and body image disturbances in Chinese adults (Barnhart, Cui, et al, 2022;Barnhart, Sun, et al, 2022).…”

Relationships between weight bias internalization and biopsychosocial health outcomes: A prospective study in Chinese adolescents

“…Furthermore, current beauty standards in China emphasize thinness and muscularity as body image ideals (Wu et al, 2021; Yeung et al, 2021; Zhang et al, 2018) like those observed in Western contexts. Thus, such body image ideals may be perpetuated by several cultural contexts in China which is supported by research suggesting sociocultural factors (e.g., tripartite influence model) are meaningful cross‐sectional and longitudinal correlates of eating pathology in the China (Barnhart, Cui, et al, 2022; Barnhart, Sun, et al, 2022; Jackson & Chen, 2007, 2008; Luo et al, 2022). As such, living in a larger body in Chinese society may be a stigmatizing experience and may set the stage for internalizing negative beliefs about weight and body fat in relation to the self (i.e., WBI).…”