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Body image and eating disturbance in India: Media and interpersonal influences
Author(s) -
Shroff Hemal,
Thompson J. Kevin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/eat.10229
Subject(s) - psychology , internalization , body mass index , interpersonal communication , developmental psychology , eating disorders , path analysis (statistics) , interpersonal relationship , mass media , young adult , disordered eating , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , advertising , statistics , receptor , mathematics , pathology , business
Objective The current study was designed to examine the relationships among the variables of body mass index (BMI), interpersonal teasing, media internalization, body dissatisfaction, and drive for thinness in samples of young adult and middle school females from India. Method Ninety‐six adolescent and 93 adult females from Bombay, India, completed measures of body dissatisfaction, restriction, teasing history, and internalization of media images. Correlational and path analytic procedures were used to examine the data. Results Path analyses indicated that teasing and internalization mediated the effect of BMI on body dissatisfaction and in certain cases influenced drive for thinness. Discussion These findings replicate and extend previous work with U.S., Australian, and Swedish samples, suggesting that there are similar potential risk factors, cross‐culturally, that may explain the development of eating and shape‐related problems. © 2004 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 35: 198–203, 2004.