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Social Norms, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Symptoms
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Kleimeyer, Katherine Jean
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303224657
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Year and Degree
2011, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - Psychology.
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms and the moderating effect socials norms play in this relationship. Specifically, perceptions of peer thinness ideals, peer acceptability of eating disorder behaviors, the prevalence of eating disorders, and peers' body dissatisfaction were examined in a non-clinical sample of college men and women. Body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms did not have a relationship in the male sample. For females, norms of peer thinness and peer acceptability moderated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders with an additive effect. This study has implications for prevention and intervention efforts.
Committee
Rose Marie Ward, PhD (Advisor)
Aaron Luebbe, PhD (Committee Member)
Brooke Spangler, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
20 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
eating disorders
;
body dissatisfaction
;
social norms
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Kleimeyer, K. J. (2011).
Social Norms, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Symptoms
[Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303224657
APA Style (7th edition)
Kleimeyer, Katherine.
Social Norms, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Symptoms.
2011. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303224657.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kleimeyer, Katherine. "Social Norms, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Symptoms." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303224657
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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