Predictors of body image dissatisfaction and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors in African American and Hispanic girls

Eating disorders and anxiety among high school students in Western area of Turkey

“…Therefore, less frequent ED is expected people who living with family. 34 However, in our study, there were no differences between people who living with family or not in terms of frequency of ED suspicion. Also there are some studies that contain same results.…”

Addressing Gender and Cultural Diversity in Body Image: Objectification Theory as a Framework for Integrating Theories and Grounding Research

“…First, objectification theory excludes the less consistent role of body control in objectified body consciousness research and specifies a meditational role for body shame in the link of body surveillance with eating problems. Second, the dual pathway model examines overall negative affect whereas objectification theory teases apart the potential predictive and mediational role of anxiety, which is found to be particularly salient for racial or ethnic minority women, from the apparent recursive link of depressive symptoms (Mitchell and Mazzeo 2004;Stice et al 2004;Vander Wal and Thomas 2004). Also, objectification theory is unique in including the health promoting role of flow as separate from general negative affectivity.…”

La construcción cultural del cuerpo: El paradigma de los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria

“…Barry y Grilo 59 , destacan que aunque las adolescentes caucásicas informan las cifras más elevadas de alteraciones alimentarias y de imagen corporal, tales preocupaciones, sin embargo, son infrecuentes entre minorías étnicas como las afroamericanas y latinoamericanas 60 .…”