ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2006
Eating disordered behaviors and media exposure.
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- Body size preferences for women and adolescent girls living in Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Development and validation of the body shape scale (BOSHAS) for assessing body shape perception in African populations.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Media Images of Anorexia: Effects of Moderate vs. Extreme Anorexia-Related Messages on Young Women.Community mental health journal · 2020Article
- Comparing gendered and generic representations of mental illness in Canadian newspapers: an exploration of the chivalry hypothesis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Sex differences in beliefs about bulimia nervosa.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study examined this relationship between eating disordered behaviors and exposure to ideal-type media in a sample of South African university students, who could be expected to have reasonably high levels of media exposure. Possible underlying reasons for this complex relationship were also investigated.
methodIt examined the relationship via both quantitative (using a questionnaire that included the EAT-26 and a media composite variable) and qualitative methods (interviews) in the sample.
resultsIn the quantitative part, sex and level of media exposure significantly predicted scores on the EAT-26. Women obtained scores that indicated they were more "at risk" for anorexia nervosa than men, especially women with higher levels of media exposure. In the qualitative part of the study grounded theory was used to explore how this relationship was formed. Results indicated that numerous factors, some related to the media, predispose women to disordered eating behaviors. The interviewees were then more likely to use ideal-type media heavily to sustain their disordered eating behaviors. Heavy use of the media led participants to attempt a number of strategies to change their appearance to resemble those in the media, with various degrees of success.
conclusionThe model developed by the qualitative research indicated that the media are not necessarily always the cause of pathological eating, but that they interact with other factors in the development of symptoms of anorexia nervosa for these women.
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