The moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation on three relationships:
media exposure and awareness of sociocultural appearance norms, awareness of social
ideals and thin-ideal internalization, and thin-ideal internalization and body
dissatisfaction were examined. European American students and African American
participants from both predominantly White and historically Black colleges and
universities completed measures of media exposure, awareness of socicultural attitudes
towards appearance, internalization of appearance norms, body dissatisfaction, and
acculturation. The LISREL 8.5 program was used to perform structural modeling
analysis using the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square and associated robust standard
errors to test the relationship between ethnic groups. The results support previous
findings regarding the mediational effect of internalization on the relationship between
awareness and body dissatisfaction, and also provided evidence for the relationship
between media exposure and awareness of sociocultural norms. The relationship
between media exposure and awareness, and awareness and internalization were similar for both groups, while relationship between internalization and body dissatisfaction was
stronger for European American women than for African American women. These
results indicate ethnicity may serve to protect some women against the development of
eating disorder symptoms, as well as the role of acculturation as a moderator between
media exposure and awareness and between internalization and body dissatisfaction in
African American women.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4176 |
| Date | 30 October 2006 |
| Creators | Henry, Keisha Denythia |
| Contributors | Cepeda-Benito, Antonio |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 277562 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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