Body image and eating disturbance in India: media and interpersonal influences

Objective: The current study was designed to examine the relationships among the variables of body mass index (BMI), interpersonal teasing, media internalization, body dissatisfaction, and drive for thinness in samples of young adult and middle school females from India. Method: Ninety-six adolescen...

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Published in:The International journal of eating disorders 2004-03, Vol.35 (2), p.198-203
Main Authors: Shroff, H, Thompson, J.K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
adolescent nutrition
adolescents
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Body fat
Body Image
Body Mass Index
Child
college students
cross cultural studies
Eating disorders
eating disturbance
eating habits
Feeding and Eating Disorders - epidemiology
Feeding and Eating Disorders - ethnology
girls
Humans
India
interpersonal influences
Interpersonal Relations
interpersonal relationships
Mass Media
Medical sciences
middle school students
peers
psychological stress
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk factors
Self image
social barriers
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Somatoform Disorders - epidemiology
Teenagers
Tropical medicine
women
young adults
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Summary:Objective: The current study was designed to examine the relationships among the variables of body mass index (BMI), interpersonal teasing, media internalization, body dissatisfaction, and drive for thinness in samples of young adult and middle school females from India. Method: Ninety-six adolescent and 93 adult females from Bombay, India, completed measures of body dissatisfaction, restriction, teasing history, and internalization of media images. Correlational and path analytic procedures were used to examine the data. Results: Path analyses indicated that teasing and internalization mediated the effect of BMI on body dissatisfaction and in certain cases influenced drive for thinness. Discussion: These findings replicate and extend previous work with U.S., Australian, and Swedish samples, suggesting that there are similar potential risk factors, cross-culturally, that may explain the development of eating and shape-related problems.
ISSN:0276-3478
1098-108X
DOI:10.1002/eat.10229