Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660, United States.
Body Image. 2010 Jan;7(1):56-65. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.10.003. Epub 2009 Nov 28.
Younger and older Muslim and non-Muslim women living in the United States completed questionnaires about body satisfaction and their internalization of Western standards of beauty (thin-ideal). Younger Muslim women wearing non-Western clothing and a head veil were significantly less likely to express drive for thinness or pressure to attain a thin-ideal standard of beauty than women wearing Western dress or younger women wearing non-Western dress without a head veil. Older women, while expressing greater discrepancy between their ideal body shape and their current body shape, and less satisfaction with their bodies than younger women, reported less drive for thinness and less pressure to attain the Western thin-ideal standard of beauty than younger women. These results are discussed in terms of how factors such as age and religion may serve as protective factors against a strong or unhealthy drive for thinness or thin-ideal standard.
居住在美国的年轻和年长的穆斯林和非穆斯林女性完成了关于身体满意度和对西方美丽标准（瘦理想）内化的问卷。与穿西方服装或年轻女性戴非面纱不戴头巾的女性相比，戴非面纱非西方服装的年轻穆斯林女性表达瘦身欲望或达到瘦理想标准的压力明显较低。年长的女性虽然表示理想体型与现有体型之间的差异更大，对身体的满意度低于年轻女性，但报告的瘦身欲望和达到西方瘦理想标准的压力比年轻女性小。这些结果是根据年龄和宗教等因素如何作为防止强烈或不健康的瘦身欲望或瘦理想标准的保护因素来讨论的。
