TY - JOUR
T1 - Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in 7- to 11-year-old girls
T2 - Testing a sociocultural model
AU - Evans, Elizabeth H.
AU - Tovée, Martin J.
AU - Boothroyd, Lynda G.
AU - Drewett, Robert F.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - We examined the sociocultural model of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitude development in young girls for the first time. According to the model, internalizing an unrealistically thin ideal body increases the risk of disordered eating via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression. Girls aged 7-11 years (N=127) completed measures of thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, depression, and disordered eating attitudes. Participants' height and weight were measured and their body mass index calculated. Thin-ideal internalization predicted disordered eating attitudes indirectly via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression; it also predicted disordered eating attitudes directly. Path analyses showed that a revised sociocultural model fit well with the data. These data show that a sociocultural framework for understanding disordered eating and body dissatisfaction in adults is useful, with minor modifications, in understanding the development of related attitudes in young girls.
AB - We examined the sociocultural model of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitude development in young girls for the first time. According to the model, internalizing an unrealistically thin ideal body increases the risk of disordered eating via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression. Girls aged 7-11 years (N=127) completed measures of thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, depression, and disordered eating attitudes. Participants' height and weight were measured and their body mass index calculated. Thin-ideal internalization predicted disordered eating attitudes indirectly via body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and depression; it also predicted disordered eating attitudes directly. Path analyses showed that a revised sociocultural model fit well with the data. These data show that a sociocultural framework for understanding disordered eating and body dissatisfaction in adults is useful, with minor modifications, in understanding the development of related attitudes in young girls.
KW - Body dissatisfaction
KW - Child
KW - Eating
KW - Thin-ideal internalization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871640881&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.10.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 23137857
AN - SCOPUS:84871640881
SN - 1740-1445
VL - 10
SP - 8
EP - 15
JO - Body Image
JF - Body Image
IS - 1
ER -