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Sociocultural influences on body dissatisfaction and dieting in Hong Kong girls.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2009 Mar; 17(2):152-60.EE

Abstract

We investigated the relationship of sociocultural influences (SI) promoting thinness (parental, peer and media pressures for thinness, and individual value for modernity), age and body mass Index (BMI) to body dissatisfaction (BD) and dieting in 294 Hong Kong community adolescent girls. We proposed that BD mediated SI's relationship with dieting. In bivariate analyses, all variables were significantly (p < or = .05) related to BD (beta's from 0.14 to 0.59), and, except for modernity, to dieting (beta's from 0.17 to 0.51). In multivariate analyses, peer (beta = 0.32, p < .001) and media pressures for thinness (beta = 0.18, p < .01) bypassed BD and were directly associated with dieting. A culture of thinness appears to be associated with weight loss efforts among girls in modernising cultures independent of BD. Our findings call for public policy to restrict promotion of the impossibly thin ideal, and public education regarding the paradoxical effects of dieting.

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Lam TH
University of Hong Kong, China.
Lee SW
No affiliation info available
Fung S
No affiliation info available
Ho SY
No affiliation info available
Lee PW
No affiliation info available
Stewart SM
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MeSH

AdolescentBody ImageBody Mass IndexChildCross-Cultural ComparisonCultureDiet, ReducingFemaleHealth EducationHong KongHumansMass MediaModels, PsychologicalOverweightParentingPeer GroupPersonality InventoryPsychometricsSocial ValuesSocializationThinnessWeight Loss

Pub Type(s)

Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

18792894

Citation

Lam, T H., et al. "Sociocultural Influences On Body Dissatisfaction and Dieting in Hong Kong Girls." European Eating Disorders Review : the Journal of the Eating Disorders Association, vol. 17, no. 2, 2009, pp. 152-60.
Lam TH, Lee SW, Fung S, et al. Sociocultural influences on body dissatisfaction and dieting in Hong Kong girls. Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2009;17(2):152-60.
Lam, T. H., Lee, S. W., Fung, S., Ho, S. Y., Lee, P. W., & Stewart, S. M. (2009). Sociocultural influences on body dissatisfaction and dieting in Hong Kong girls. European Eating Disorders Review : the Journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 17(2), 152-60. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.900
Lam TH, et al. Sociocultural Influences On Body Dissatisfaction and Dieting in Hong Kong Girls. Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2009;17(2):152-60. PubMed PMID: 18792894.
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