Examining an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating among college women: The roles of social comparison and body surveillance |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States;2. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States;3. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States;4. Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States;5. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;6. Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND, United States;7. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States;1. York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada;2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, Canada;3. Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Social comparison (i.e., body, eating, exercise) and body surveillance were tested as mediators of the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relationship in the context of an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating. Participants were 219 college women who completed two questionnaire sessions 3 months apart. The cross-sectional elaborated sociocultural model (i.e., including social comparison and body surveillance as mediators of the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relation) provided a good fit to the data, and the total indirect effect from thin-ideal internalization to body dissatisfaction through the mediators was significant. Social comparison emerged as a significant specific mediator while body surveillance did not. The mediation model did not hold prospectively; however, social comparison accounted for unique variance in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating 3 months later. Results suggest that thin-ideal internalization may not be “automatically” associated with body dissatisfaction and that it may be especially important to target comparison in prevention and intervention efforts. |
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| Keywords: | Social comparison Body surveillance Thin-ideal internalization Body dissatisfaction Disordered eating Sociocultural model |
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