Ethnic differences in psychosocial and health behavior correlates of dieting, purging, and binge eating in a population-based sample of adolescent females

Objective: To examine ethnic differences in factors associated with disordered eating behaviors. Method: Data were collected from 17,159 adolescent females who completed a school-based health survey conducted in 1987. Results: In all ethnic groups, dieting was associated in bivariate analyses with w...

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Published in:The International journal of eating disorders 1997-11, Vol.22 (3), p.315-322
Main Authors: French, S.A. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.), Story, M, Neumark-Sztainer, D, Downes, B, Resnick, M, Blum, R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
AMERICAN INDIANS
APPETITE DISORDERS
ASIANS
Binge eating
BINGE EATING DISORDERS
Biological and medical sciences
BLACKS
BODY IMAGE
BULIMIA
CAUCASIANS
CHILDREN
COMPORTAMIENTO HUMANO
COMPORTEMENT HUMAIN
EATING DISORDERS
ENCUESTAS
ENFANT
ENQUETE
ETHNIC GROUPS
ETHNICITY
Ethnology
FACTEUR PSYCHOLOGIQUE
FACTORES PSICOLOGICOS
Feeding and Eating Disorders - complications
Feeding and Eating Disorders - ethnology
Feeding and Eating Disorders - psychology
Feeding Behavior
Female
GIRLS
GROUPE ETHNIQUE
GRUPOS ETNICOS
HISPANICS
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
JEUNESSE
JUVENTUD
Medical sciences
MINNESOTA
Minnesota - epidemiology
Multivariate Analysis
NINOS
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Self image
Sex Offenses
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Substance-Related Disorders - complications
SURVEYS
Teenagers
TRASTORNOS ALIMENTICIOS
TROUBLE ALIMENTAIRE
YOUTH
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Summary:Objective: To examine ethnic differences in factors associated with disordered eating behaviors. Method: Data were collected from 17,159 adolescent females who completed a school-based health survey conducted in 1987. Results: In all ethnic groups, dieting was associated in bivariate analyses with weight dissatisfaction, perceived overweight, and low body pride. Purging was associated with weight dissatisfaction, perceived overweight, low body pride, greater suicide risk, and greater alcohol use. Binge eating was associated with weight dissatisfaction, perceived overweight, low body pride, lower family connectedness, greater peer acceptance concerns, and emotional stress. Discussion: Body dissatisfaction and perceived overweight are consistent correlates of dieting and binge eating in adolescent females of diverse ethnic groups. Ethnic subculture does not appear to protect against the broader sociocultural factors that foster body dissatisfaction among adolescent females. Implications for understanding sociocultural influences on dieting, obesity, and eating disorders are discussed
ISSN:0276-3478
1098-108X
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199711)22:3<315::AID-EAT11>3.0.CO;2-X