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Tendency toward deliberate food restriction, fear of fatness and somatic attribution in cross-cultural samples.
Eat Behav. 2007 Aug; 8(3):407-17.EB

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

To compare Omani and western teenagers attending schools in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman and Filipino teenagers residing in Manila, Philippines on indices of deliberate food restriction and dieting behavior.

METHODS

The sample consisted of 444 students who were assessed using the cross-culturally valid measure, Eating Attitude Test-26, a subscale of Eating Disorder Inventory to gauge the presence of the drive for thinness or 'fat phobia' and the Bradford Somatic Inventory to elicit the presence of somatization.

RESULT

Significant differences in attitudes to eating, body image and somatization between the western and non-western teenagers were found.

CONCLUSION

This paper suggests that trajectories of eating disorder, such as body image disturbances as expressed in fat phobia and somatization, tend to vary from culture to culture and underscore the view that some of the health related behavior among adolescents need to be examined within socio-cultural contexts.

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Viernes N
Department of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 35, Al-Khoudh 123, Muscat, Oman.
Zaidan ZA
No affiliation info available
Dorvlo AS
No affiliation info available
Kayano M
No affiliation info available
Yoishiuchi K
No affiliation info available
Kumano H
No affiliation info available
Kuboki T
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Al-Adawi S
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MeSH

AdolescentAttitudeBody HeightBody ImageBody Mass IndexBody WeightCross-Cultural ComparisonDiet, ReducingDriveEuropeFearFemaleHealth SurveysHumansMaleNorth AmericaObesityOmanPersonality InventoryPhilippinesSomatoform DisordersThinness

Pub Type(s)

Comparative Study
Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

17606239

Citation

Viernes, Nonna, et al. "Tendency Toward Deliberate Food Restriction, Fear of Fatness and Somatic Attribution in Cross-cultural Samples." Eating Behaviors, vol. 8, no. 3, 2007, pp. 407-17.
Viernes N, Zaidan ZA, Dorvlo AS, et al. Tendency toward deliberate food restriction, fear of fatness and somatic attribution in cross-cultural samples. Eat Behav. 2007;8(3):407-17.
Viernes, N., Zaidan, Z. A., Dorvlo, A. S., Kayano, M., Yoishiuchi, K., Kumano, H., Kuboki, T., & Al-Adawi, S. (2007). Tendency toward deliberate food restriction, fear of fatness and somatic attribution in cross-cultural samples. Eating Behaviors, 8(3), 407-17.
Viernes N, et al. Tendency Toward Deliberate Food Restriction, Fear of Fatness and Somatic Attribution in Cross-cultural Samples. Eat Behav. 2007;8(3):407-17. PubMed PMID: 17606239.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Tendency toward deliberate food restriction, fear of fatness and somatic attribution in cross-cultural samples. AU - Viernes,Nonna, AU - Zaidan,Ziad A J, AU - Dorvlo,Atsu S S, AU - Kayano,Mami, AU - Yoishiuchi,Kazuhiro, AU - Kumano,Hiroaki, AU - Kuboki,Tomifusa, AU - Al-Adawi,Samir, Y1 - 2007/01/03/ PY - 2006/05/06/received PY - 2006/11/20/revised PY - 2006/12/21/accepted PY - 2007/7/4/pubmed PY - 2007/10/16/medline PY - 2007/7/4/entrez SP - 407 EP - 17 JF - Eating behaviors JO - Eat Behav VL - 8 IS - 3 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To compare Omani and western teenagers attending schools in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman and Filipino teenagers residing in Manila, Philippines on indices of deliberate food restriction and dieting behavior. METHODS: The sample consisted of 444 students who were assessed using the cross-culturally valid measure, Eating Attitude Test-26, a subscale of Eating Disorder Inventory to gauge the presence of the drive for thinness or 'fat phobia' and the Bradford Somatic Inventory to elicit the presence of somatization. RESULT: Significant differences in attitudes to eating, body image and somatization between the western and non-western teenagers were found. CONCLUSION: This paper suggests that trajectories of eating disorder, such as body image disturbances as expressed in fat phobia and somatization, tend to vary from culture to culture and underscore the view that some of the health related behavior among adolescents need to be examined within socio-cultural contexts. SN - 1471-0153 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/17606239/Tendency_toward_deliberate_food_restriction_fear_of_fatness_and_somatic_attribution_in_cross_cultural_samples_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1471-0153(06)00111-5 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -