Abstract
Objective. To investigate media and cultural influences in eating disorder development in African-American adolescent females. Method. Fifty-seven participants were recruited through churches and community organizations to complete a questionnaire. Results. Mainstream sociocultural identification was associated with more eating disorder behavior in African-American females; cultural ethnic identification was not significantly associated with eating disorder behavior in African-American females, mainstream sociocultural identification, cultural ethnic identification, and body dissatisfaction significantly predicted eating disorder behavior; and cultural ethnic identification was positively correlated with mainstream sociocultural identification. This study provides support for the importance of eating disorder prevention interventions that focus specifically on African-American girls.
Highlights
MethodsParticipants (NN N NN) were recruited from community organizations, churches, and neighborhoods in an urban Midwest City and an urban east coast city
To the researcher’s knowledge, no research study has examined media and cultural in uences in AfricanAmerican middle school to early high school age girls living in an urban setting. us, this study has contributed to the existing, albeit limited, literature on African-American females by showing the effects of acculturation on AfricanAmerican females residing in urban settings
Similar in this study to other studies is the sample size being comparable to other studies that utilize Black girls, in gathering approximately 50 participants [35, 36]. e socioeconomic status (SES) of participants and the utilization of middle school to high school age adolescents are comparable to the current study [36,37,38]. e results from the current study suggest that in AfricanAmerican girls living in an urban, primarily lower-middle class setting, the perceptions of American beauty standards and thin ideal may arise as in upper-middle class, suburban minority populations [5, 12]
Summary
Participants (NN N NN) were recruited from community organizations, churches, and neighborhoods in an urban Midwest City and an urban east coast city. 57 participants, 50 (nn n nn) met criteria for participation in the study. All of the quali ed participants self-identi ed as African-American. Of the seven girls did not meet criteria for this study, four self-identi ed as Hispanic, one self-identi ed as Native American, one was African-American but did not have proper parent consent, and one was a nine-year-old African-American girl who did not have proper parent consent
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