Davidson College, USA; Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Davidson College, USA.
Body Image. 2022 Mar;40:340-350. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.01.014. Epub 2022 Feb 7.
Female collegiate athletes are a high-risk group for disordered eating. Petrie and Greenleaf's (2007) sociocultural model proposes that both general and sport-related weight pressures lead athletes to internalize unrealistic body ideals, ultimately resulting in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. In this study, we used structural equation modeling to assess general and sport-specific weight pressures in relation to thin- and muscular-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating among 212 female Division I college athletes. General weight pressures from parents, peers, and the media were associated with disordered eating indirectly via thin- and muscular-ideal internalization. In contrast, sport-specific weight pressures were not associated with disordered eating in the full model. After controlling for weight pressures and body ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction was also not associated with disordered eating. These findings suggest that female athletes are vulnerable to weight- and appearance-related pressures from outside the sport context and that the mechanisms underlying the development of disordered eating may differ between athletes and non-athletes.
女性大学生运动员是饮食失调的高风险群体。Petrie 和 Greenleaf（2007）的社会文化模型提出，一般的和与运动相关的体重压力导致运动员内化不切实际的身体理想，最终导致身体不满和饮食失调。在这项研究中，我们使用结构方程模型来评估一般和特定于运动的体重压力与瘦和肌肉理想内化、身体不满和 212 名一级大学女性运动员的饮食失调之间的关系。来自父母、同龄人、媒体的一般体重压力通过瘦和肌肉理想内化与饮食失调间接相关。相比之下，在完整模型中，特定于运动的体重压力与饮食失调无关。在控制体重压力和身体理想内化后，身体不满也与饮食失调无关。这些发现表明，女性运动员容易受到来自运动环境之外的与体重和外表相关的压力的影响，而且饮食失调的发展机制在运动员和非运动员之间可能不同。
