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Jung, Jaehee; Forbes, Gordon B. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating were compared across groups of college women from China (n = 109), South Korea (n = 137), and the United States (n = 102). Based on cultural differences in the amount of exposure to Western appearance standards, particularly the thin-body ideal, sociocultural theory (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, &…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Eating Disorders, Cultural Differences
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Stark-Wroblewski, Kim; Yanico, Barbara J.; Lupe, Steven – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
In the context of the sociocultural model of eating disorders, this study investigated the hypothesis that Westernization would be positively associated with eating pathology among non-Western women. International participants from Japan (n=26), Peoples Republic of China (n=25), Taiwan (n=30), and Hong Kong (n=25) who were studying in the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Norms, Pathology