Viladrich Anahí, Yeh Ming-Chin, Bruning Nancy, Weiss Rachael
Immigration and Health Initiative, Urban Public Health Program, Hunter College of the City University of New York, Brookdale Campus, 425 E 25th Street, W 1021, New York, NY 10010, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2009 Feb;11(1):20-8. doi: 10.1007/s10903-008-9176-9. Epub 2008 Sep 21.
This paper examines Latinas' assessments of their individual body shape and weight vis-à-vis their beliefs and attitudes regarding mainstream and alternative body images. A mixed method data collection system was used based on individual instruments and focus group guidelines. While individual measures revealed participants' preference for thinner body types than what they actually considered themselves to be, group data underscore contradictory body paradigms, defined as Latinas' Paradoxical Body Images (LAPABI). Findings suggest the prevalence of a mainstream stereotype represented by the fit/thin White woman as the ultimate body ideal, along with the Latina curvy shape as its counter-image. The paper further discusses the importance of the media, and of divergent cultural values, in supporting these co-existing body ideals, as well as the need for more studies addressing their combined effect on Latinas' obesity patterns and their weight-control efforts.
本文考察了拉丁裔女性对自身个体体型和体重的评估，以及她们对主流和另类身体形象的信念与态度。基于个体工具和焦点小组指南，采用了混合方法数据收集系统。虽然个体测量结果显示参与者偏好比她们实际认为自己的体型更瘦的体型，但小组数据凸显了相互矛盾的身体范式，即拉丁裔矛盾身体形象（LAPABI）。研究结果表明，以健康/苗条的白人女性为终极身体理想的主流刻板印象普遍存在，同时拉丁裔的曲线身材则是其反形象。本文进一步讨论了媒体以及不同文化价值观在支持这些共存的身体理想方面的重要性，以及需要更多研究来探讨它们对拉丁裔肥胖模式及其体重控制努力的综合影响。
