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Internalization of the thin and muscular body ideal and disordered eating in adolescence: The mediation effects of body esteem
- Source :
- Body Image. 9:68-75
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- This study investigates body esteem factors (weight-esteem and appearance-esteem) as mediators of the relationship between 'internalization of the ideal body figure' and disordered eating behaviors (restrained, emotional and external eating) in a community sample of adolescent males (n=810) and females (n=1137) from the Ontario Research on Eating and Adolescent Lifestyles (REAL) study. Mediation models were examined using a bootstrapping approach to test indirect effects and indirect contrasts. In males, weight-esteem partially mediated the relationship between muscular ideal and restrained eating; appearance-esteem partially mediated effects in the emotional and external eating regressions. In females, both weight-esteem and appearance-esteem partially mediated the relationship between thin ideal and all three forms of disordered eating; weight-esteem was a stronger mediator for restrained eating, and appearance-esteem a stronger mediator for emotional and external eating. Body esteem is important to consider for prevention and treatment of disordered eating in both genders.
- Subjects :
- Male
Mediation (statistics)
Adolescent
Diet, Reducing
Social Psychology
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Ideal Body Weight
Self-concept
Body weight
behavioral disciplines and activities
Developmental psychology
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Sex Factors
Thinness
Risk Factors
Sex factors
The Thin Ideal
Body Image
Humans
Disordered eating
Internalization
Internal-External Control
General Psychology
Applied Psychology
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Somatotypes
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Feeding Behavior
social sciences
Self Concept
humanities
Physical Fitness
behavior and behavior mechanisms
Female
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17401445
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Body Image
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bbabc724d2b4a1b97ccbf45e9fe9d713