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Acculturation, Body Image, Self-esteem, and Eating Disorder SYmptomatology in Adolescent Mexican American Women
Psychology of Women Quarterly (1996)
  • Susan Kashubeck-West, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  • Greg M. Joiner
Abstract
In this article the relationship among acculturation, body image, self-esteem, and eating disorder symptomatology in 120 Mexican American adolescent women was investigated. Surprisingly, acculturation levels were not related to anorexic or bulimic symptomatology, self-esteem, body dissatisfaction or thinness of ideal and attractive figures. Lower levels of self-esteem predicted higher levels of anorexic and bulimic symptomatology. Body mass was positively related to bulimic scores. In contrast to Lester and Petrie (1995), body dissatisfaction was significantly related to eating-disorder symptomatology. The high levels of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors found in this study suggest that rather than exclusively being an Anglo, middle-to upper-class phenomenon, eating-disordered behavior also exists within lower socioeconomic status Mexican American adolescent women.
Publication Date
1996
DOI
10.1111/j.1471-6402.1996.tb00309.x
Citation Information
Susan Kashubeck-West and Greg M. Joiner. "Acculturation, Body Image, Self-esteem, and Eating Disorder SYmptomatology in Adolescent Mexican American Women" Psychology of Women Quarterly Vol. 20 (1996) p. 419 - 435
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/susan-kashubeck-west/31/