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Acculturation, body image, and eating behaviours in Muslim-Australian women
The relationship between western acculturation, body dissatisfaction, and eating behaviours was examined in a sample of 101 Muslim-Australian women between 18 and 44 years of age (M=27.3, SD=7.5). A questionnaire was completed containing measures of cultural identification (heritage and mainstream), body dissatisfaction and disordered eating (dietary control, bingeing and purging), internalization of the thin ideal, and self-esteem. A series of path analyses identified significant positive relationships between mainstream identification and the measures of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating that were mediated by thin-ideal internalization. Path analyses also identified significant negative relationships between heritage identification and the measures of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating that were mediated by self-esteem. These results are indicative of the potential risks to body image incurred by women who adopt Western values, and of the benefits in retaining heritage cultural values that promote a positive self image.
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Health and placeVolume
15Issue
2Pagination
532 - 539Publisher
PergamonLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1353-8292eISSN
1873-2054Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2008, ElsevierLtdUsage metrics
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