Akoury Liya M, Warren Cortney S, Culbert Kristen M
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States.
Choose Honesty, LLC, Las Vegas, NV, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Sep 4;10:1950. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01950. eCollection 2019.
Asian American women demonstrate higher rates of disordered eating than other women of color and comparable rates to European American women. Research suggests that leading sociocultural predictors, namely, pressures for thinness and thin-ideal internalization, are predictive of disordered eating in Asian American women; however, no known studies have tested the intersection of sociocultural and culture-specific variables (e.g., ethnic identity, biculturalism, and acculturative stress) to further elucidate disordered eating risk in this vulnerable, understudied group. Accordingly, this project used path analysis to simultaneously examine the role of sociocultural and culture-specific effects on disordered eating in Asian American college women ( = 430). Self-report measures assessing disordered eating, sociocultural (pressures for thinness, thin-ideal internalization), and culture-specific (ethnic identity, biculturalism, acculturative stress) variables revealed that a number of sociocultural and culture-specific factors are predictive of disordered eating. Consistent with prior research, heightened perceived pressures for thinness and thin-ideal internalization were predictive of disordered eating, and thin-ideal internalization partially mediated the relationship between pressures for thinness and disordered eating. Acculturative stress predicted disordered eating and fully accounted for the inverse relationship between biculturalism and disordered eating. Overall, findings highlighted the salience of sociocultural predictors for disordered eating in Asian American women and identified biculturalism and acculturative stress as culture-specific contributors that may uniquely impact vulnerability to disordered eating in Asian American women. Thus, the combined consideration of sociocultural and culture-specific factors may be important in disordered eating research and in the development of individualized treatment plans for Asian American women.
亚裔美国女性比其他有色人种女性表现出更高的饮食失调率，与欧美裔女性的比率相当。研究表明，主要的社会文化预测因素，即对瘦的压力和对瘦理想的内化，可预测亚裔美国女性的饮食失调；然而，尚无已知研究检验社会文化和特定文化变量（如种族认同、双文化主义和文化适应压力）的交叉作用，以进一步阐明这个易受影响且研究不足的群体中饮食失调的风险。因此，本项目采用路径分析，同时考察社会文化和特定文化因素对亚裔美国女大学生（ = 430）饮食失调的作用。评估饮食失调、社会文化（对瘦的压力、对瘦理想的内化）和特定文化（种族认同、双文化主义、文化适应压力）变量的自我报告测量结果显示，一些社会文化和特定文化因素可预测饮食失调。与先前研究一致，对瘦的感知压力增加和对瘦理想的内化可预测饮食失调，且对瘦理想的内化部分介导了对瘦的压力与饮食失调之间的关系。文化适应压力可预测饮食失调，并完全解释了双文化主义与饮食失调之间的负相关关系。总体而言，研究结果突出了社会文化预测因素对亚裔美国女性饮食失调的显著影响，并确定双文化主义和文化适应压力是特定文化因素，可能会独特地影响亚裔美国女性饮食失调的易感性。因此，综合考虑社会文化和特定文化因素可能对饮食失调研究以及为亚裔美国女性制定个性化治疗方案很重要。
