Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Eat Behav. 2013 Aug;14(3):320-4. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.05.004. Epub 2013 May 15.
Western culture has great influences on body dissatisfaction and related eating behaviors in adolescents. This study aimed to assess the sociocultural influences on eating attitudes and motivations among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
In 2007, 909 adolescents (mean age = 14.7 years, 55.3% boys) completed a survey with Stunkard's Figure Rating Scale (FRS), Motivation for Eating Scale (MFES), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), Revised Restraint Scale (RRS), and Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Scale (SATAQ). In addition, their body mass index (BMI) was objectively measured.
Our results indicated that Hong Kong adolescents, particularly girls exhibited a remarked level of body dissatisfaction, external, emotional, restrained and disordered eating behaviors. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that age, sex and BMI were the most common contributing factors to individual eating styles. SATAQ significantly accounted for an additional variance of body dissatisfaction (2%), physical eating (2%), external eating (1%), emotional eating (3%), restrained eating (5%), and disordered eating (5%).
In Hong Kong, the sociocultural influences on body image and eating disturbance were supported.
西方文化对青少年的身体不满和相关饮食行为有很大的影响。本研究旨在评估社会文化因素对香港青少年饮食态度和动机的影响。
2007 年，909 名青少年（平均年龄=14.7 岁，55.3%为男性）完成了一项调查，内容包括 Stunkard 体型评定量表（FRS）、进食动机量表（MFES）、饮食态度测试（EAT）、修订型抑制量表（RRS）和社会文化态度对体型量表（SATAQ）。此外，还对他们的体重指数（BMI）进行了客观测量。
研究结果表明，香港青少年，尤其是女孩表现出明显的身体不满、外在、情绪化、受约束和饮食失调行为。层次回归分析表明，年龄、性别和 BMI 是影响个体饮食方式的最常见因素。SATAQ 显著解释了身体不满（2%）、生理进食（2%）、外在进食（1%）、情绪化进食（3%）、受约束进食（5%）和饮食失调（5%）的额外差异。
在香港，社会文化因素对体型和饮食失调有影响。
