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  title info:
    title: Does culture moderate the relationship between awareness and internalization of Western ideals and the development of body dissatisfaction in women?
  name:
    name part: Warren, Cortney Soderlind
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Gleaves, David H.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The sociocultural model of eating disorders suggests that awareness of a thin physical ideal directly affects internalization of that ideal, which in turn, directly affects body dissatisfaction. The current study evaluated the general accuracy of the sociocultural model and examined the potential for ethnicity to protect against eating disorder symptomatology by moderating the relationships between awareness and internalization and between internalization and body dissatisfaction. Spanish (n = 100), Mexican American (n = 100), and Euro-American (n = 100) female participants completed various questionnaires measuring sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and body dissatisfaction. Analysis of covariance with tests of homogeneity of slope and path analysis using maximum likelihood with robust standard errors tested the two relationships by ethnic group. Results supported the sociocultural model: there was strong evidence for the mediational effect of internalization on the relationship between awareness and body dissatisfaction. Furthermore, ethnicity moderated the relationships such that both relationships were significantly stronger for Euro-American women than for Mexican American or Spanish women. Within the Mexican American group level of acculturation also moderated these relationships. Taken together, the results of this study highlight how ethnicity can protect against the development of eating disorder symptoms. Denouncing the thin ideal, minimizing appearance as an indicator of female value, and emphasizing personal traits other than appearance as determinants of worth are important in protecting against the development of body dissatisfaction and more severe eating pathology.
  note: by Cortney Soderlind Warren.
  note: "Major Subject: Psychology."
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 30, 2004.).
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M.S. Texas A & M University 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
  subject:
    topic: Sociocultural model of eating disorders
  subject:
    topic: thin-ideal internalization
  subject:
    topic: body dissatisfaction
  subject:
    topic: acculturation
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American
  subject:
    topic: Spanish
  subject:
    topic: cross-cultural differences
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/168
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 040618
    record change date: 20151026065735.0
    record identifier: in00001840997