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Disordered Eating Among Asian/Asian American Women: Racial and Cultural Factors as Correlates.

Sociocultural models of eating disorders emphasize the role of internalization of media standards of beauty in eating pathology but rarely examine (a) how racial and cultural factors may be related to women of color’s tendency to endorse Western media beauty ideals or (b) these women’s risk of devel...

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Published in:Counseling Psychologist Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 821 - 852
Main Author: Cheng, Hsiu-Lan
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Aug2014
Subjects:
Midwest (U.S.)
Asians
Eating disorders
Cultural pluralism
Race
Self-esteem testing
Self-evaluation
Women
Chi-squared test
Factor analysis
Scale analysis (Psychology)
Structural frame models
Surveys
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