Department of Applied Psychology, North Eastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Psychiatric Emergency & Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, CHRU Montpellier, France.
Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia.
Body Image. 2020 Dec;35:300-315. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.09.016. Epub 2020 Nov 9.
The aim of the current study was to examine the psychometric properties of two well-established measures of sociocultural influence and internalization of the thin/low body fat ideal and muscular ideal. Data from 6272 emerging adults (68.9 % female), aged 18-30 years from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the U.S. were included in this study. Participants completed measures of pressure from mother, fathers, peers, and media, to both increase muscles and lose weight, as well as internalization of the thin/low body fat ideal and muscular ideal. Overall, support for partial invariance was found across the scales. In addition, group level differences were found between countries as well as along demographic factors including gender, age, body mass index, and socioeconomic status. These findings make an important contribution by identifying these scales as useful tools that will support future cross-country and cross-cultural examinations of explanatory models of the development of body image and eating concerns grounded within sociocultural theories.
本研究旨在检验两种成熟的社会文化影响和对瘦/低体脂理想和肌肉理想内化的测量工具的心理测量学特性。本研究的数据来自澳大利亚、比利时、加拿大、中国、意大利、日本、西班牙和美国的 6272 名 18-30 岁的青年。参与者完成了关于来自母亲、父亲、同伴和媒体的增加肌肉和减肥的压力，以及对瘦/低体脂理想和肌肉理想内化的测量。总的来说，这些量表在各个方面都支持部分不变性。此外，还发现了国家之间以及性别、年龄、体重指数和社会经济地位等人口统计学因素方面的群体水平差异。这些发现通过确定这些量表作为有用的工具，为未来基于社会文化理论的身体意象和饮食问题发展的解释模型的跨国和跨文化研究做出了重要贡献。
