For instance, up to 90% of women attending college in the United States may report they would like to be slimmer than they are (e.g., Williams et al., 2001) in a United Kingdom representative sample conducted by the Girlguiding organization in 2009, 93% of adolescent girls said they would like to change at least one thing about their physical appearance (as cited by Verplanken et al., 2011).
Although BD is prevalent among individuals diagnosed with an eating disorder, in the United States and other high-income countries some degree of BD and the desire to be thinner is more often the norm than the exception among adolescent girls and women. We argue that the findings are congruent with theories that predict that economic development and modernization contribute to normative female BD through internalization of the thin ideal and that upward social comparisons or cognitive discrepancy between self-perceived body image and the sociocultural thin ideal interacts synergistically with thin-ideal internalization to increase BD.īody dissatisfaction (BD), a negative evaluation of one’s appearance and body size, is thought to be a precursor of compensatory eating disorder symptoms such as restrictive dieting, binge eating and purging, or excessive laxative use (e.g., Attie and Brooks-Gunn, 1989 Stice et al., 1998). Specifically, internalization predicted BD at all level of BMI and in both samples, but the relationship between internalization and BD increased with BMI and was also stronger among Spaniards than Argentines. As hypothesized, thin-ideal awareness predicted BD through internalization and the path from internalization to BD was moderated by BMI and nationality. The model was analyzed using PROCESS v3.1 ( Hayes, 2018). Awareness and internalization were measured with the SATAQ-4 ( Schaefer et al., 2015) and BD was measured with the BSQ ( Cooper et al., 1987). The model was tested with a sample of 499 young women (age = 18 to 29) from Argentina ( n = 290) and Spain ( n = 209).
We tested for the first time a conditional mediation model where thin-ideal Awareness predicted BD through Internalization of the thin ideal and the path from Internalization to BD was hypothesized to be moderated by BMI and Nationality (Argentine vs. It is also well documented that body mass index (BMI kg/m 2) correlates with BD.
It is believed that Women’s exposure to Western sociocultural pressures to attain a “thin-ideal” results in the internalization of a desire to be thin that consequently leads to body dissatisfaction (BD).
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