Ethnicity and acculturation as moderators of the relationship between media exposure, awareness, and thin-ideal internalization in African American women
Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation on three relationships:\nmedia exposure and awareness of sociocultural appearance norms, awareness of social\nideals and thin-ideal internalization, and thin-ideal internalization and body\ndissatisfaction were examined. European American students and African American\nparticipants from both predominantly White and historically Black colleges and\nuniversities completed measures of media exposure, awareness of socicultural attitudes\ntowards appearance, internalization of appearance norms, body dissatisfaction, and\nacculturation. The LISREL 8.5 program was used to perform structural modeling\nanalysis using the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square and associated robust standard\nerrors to test the relationship between ethnic groups. The results support previous\nfindings regarding the mediational effect of internalization on the relationship between\nawareness and body dissatisfaction, and also provided evidence for the relationship\nbetween media exposure and awareness of sociocultural norms. The relationship\nbetween media exposure and awareness, and awareness and internalization were similar for both groups, while relationship between internalization and body dissatisfaction was\nstronger for European American women than for African American women. These\nresults indicate ethnicity may serve to protect some women against the development of\neating disorder symptoms, as well as the role of acculturation as a moderator between\nmedia exposure and awareness and between internalization and body dissatisfaction in\nAfrican American women.
Author: Keisha Denythia Henry
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2277685339