Department of Psychology, Durham University Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE England, United Kingdom.
Body Image. 2013 Jan;10(1):8-15. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.001. Epub 2012 Nov 6.
We examined the sociocultural model of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitude development in young girls for the first time. According to the model, internalizing an unrealistically thin ideal body increases the risk of disordered eating via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression. Girls aged 7-11 years (N=127) completed measures of thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, depression, and disordered eating attitudes. Participants' height and weight were measured and their body mass index calculated. Thin-ideal internalization predicted disordered eating attitudes indirectly via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression; it also predicted disordered eating attitudes directly. Path analyses showed that a revised sociocultural model fit well with the data. These data show that a sociocultural framework for understanding disordered eating and body dissatisfaction in adults is useful, with minor modifications, in understanding the development of related attitudes in young girls.
我们首次检验了年轻女孩体不满意和饮食失调态度发展的社会文化模型。根据该模型,内化不切实际的瘦理想体型会通过体不满意、节食和抑郁增加饮食失调的风险。我们对 7-11 岁的女孩(N=127)进行了瘦理想内化、体不满意、节食、抑郁和饮食失调态度的测量。参与者的身高和体重也被测量,其体重指数被计算出来。瘦理想内化通过体不满意、节食限制和抑郁间接预测饮食失调态度,也通过这些因素直接预测饮食失调态度。路径分析表明,一个修正后的社会文化模型很好地适用于数据。这些数据表明,理解成年人饮食失调和体不满意的社会文化框架,在稍作修改后,也适用于理解年轻女孩相关态度的发展。