Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, 3652 Bashir Street, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Eat Weight Disord. 2021 Aug;26(6):1835-1844. doi: 10.1007/s40519-020-01028-w. Epub 2020 Oct 4.
This study addressed the prevalence of eating disorders and levels of eating pathology, body image, and psychological comorbidities in undergraduate women in Saudi Arabia. It examined the role of the current internalization of western culture that is under way in that country, focusing on political and economic issues rather than on issues such as media exposure per se.
Participants were 503 Saudi female university students (mean age = 19.78 years). Each completed a diagnostic measure of eating disorders and measures of disordered eating attitudes and behaviours, body image, depression, social anxiety, and self-esteem. They also completed a measure of the internalization of western culture, specific to current political and cultural developments in Saudi Arabia.
Eating disorder prevalence and pathology rates among undergraduates females were comparable to western levels, though the pattern was more one of bulimic than anorexic pathology. Internalization of western values was associated with eating pathology, body image, and psychological comorbidities.
Eating disorders are not an exclusively western issue, as the levels in Saudi undergraduate women are similar to those in western cultures (though they tend more towards bulimic than anorexic presentations). Internalization of western values appears to be key to this pattern. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE : Level III, case-control analytic study.
本研究旨在探讨沙特阿拉伯本科女性中饮食障碍的流行率以及饮食病理学、身体意象和心理共病的水平。研究考察了当前正在进行的内化西方文化的作用，重点关注政治和经济问题，而不是媒体暴露本身等问题。
参与者为 503 名沙特女大学生（平均年龄=19.78 岁）。每个人都完成了饮食障碍的诊断测试以及饮食障碍态度和行为、身体意象、抑郁、社交焦虑和自尊的测试。他们还完成了一项针对沙特阿拉伯当前政治和文化发展的内化西方文化的测试。
与西方水平相比，本科生女性的饮食障碍患病率和病理学发生率相当，但模式更倾向于贪食症病理学而不是厌食症病理学。内化西方价值观与饮食病理学、身体意象和心理共病有关。
饮食障碍不是西方特有的问题，因为沙特本科女性的水平与西方文化相似（尽管她们更倾向于贪食症而不是厌食症）。内化西方价值观似乎是这种模式的关键。
三级，病例对照分析研究。
