Ohring Richard, Graber Julia A, Brooks-Gunn Jeanne
Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Int J Eat Disord. 2002 May;31(4):404-15. doi: 10.1002/eat.10049.
The present study examines the patterns of body dissatisfaction during adolescence in order to determine whether girls enter onto trajectories of body dissatisfaction that are associated with eating and depressive symptoms during adolescence and in young adulthood.
Body dissatisfaction was studied in 120 adolescent girls drawn from a normal population of students enrolled in private schools in a major metropolitan area. They were seen at three times over an 8-year period (mean ages = 14.3, 16.0, and 22.3).
Recurrent body dissatisfaction during adolescence was associated with earlier pubertal maturation and elevated depressive and eating symptoms in young adulthood compared with girls who maintained positive body images during adolescence. Concurrent body dissatisfaction was also a correlate of greater depressed affect and eating symptoms at the time these girls experienced body dissatisfaction.
Findings suggest that adolescent body dissatisfaction has consequences for affect in adulthood.
本研究考察青春期身体不满的模式,以确定女孩是否进入与青春期及成年早期的饮食和抑郁症状相关的身体不满轨迹。
对来自一个大城市私立学校正常学生群体的120名青春期女孩进行身体不满研究。在8年时间里对她们进行了三次观察(平均年龄分别为14.3岁、16.0岁和22.3岁)。
与青春期保持积极身体形象的女孩相比,青春期反复出现的身体不满与青春期早熟以及成年早期抑郁和饮食症状加重有关。同时期的身体不满也是这些女孩经历身体不满时抑郁情绪和饮食症状加重的一个相关因素。
研究结果表明,青少年身体不满对成年后的情绪有影响。