Dieting, dissatisfaction with figure, and sex role orientation in women
1989
Strien, T. van
In a study of 540 women residing in Ede, the Netherlands, the relationships between dieting, satisfaction with figure, and sex-role orientation was researched. Other variables in the study were actual body mass, level of education, anxiety, and negative self-concept. Degree of sex-role orientation was found to be significantly related to dieting and satisfaction with one's figure. However, the most striking finding was the high relationship between dieting and satisfaction with one's figure and actual body mass. In contrast to studies on college students, this suggests that, in the present study on community residents, concerns about figure and body weight are not likely to be preludes of epidemics of anorexia or bulimia nervosa. Instead, these concerns are understandable, since they seem based on actual (over)weight for most of the women.
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