Abstract
It is widely recognized that body dissatisfaction is an important public health concern. In the past, being a fashion model was almost synonymous with anorexia/bulimia, and even today, there are cases of eating disorders in young women whose ambition is to become a top model. Moreover, stress can play a substantial role within ill health via related behaviors such as smoking, substance abuse, and inappropriate eating. In our study, we examined 112 aspiring fashion models aged between 15 and 24 years (M = 19.5, SD = 2.08) from 32 different countries of the world during an international contest, and 100 students (control group), aged between 16 and 22 years (M = 18.6, SD = 1.39). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether stress mediated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. The study included the administration of stress and self-efficacy and the locus of control dimensions, body (image) dissatisfaction, and eating attitude disorder. Results indicated higher scores on body dissatisfaction, stress level, and eating attitudes disorder among the group of fashion models compared to the control. Mediational analyses showed that body dissatisfaction was partially mediated by stress level on eating disorders. Especially in the aspiring fashion models, there are often many possibilities that competitive stress causes candidates to exacerbate attempts to maintain their body weight below normal weight/height parameters. These results indicated that appropriate intervention for the management of stress level could possibly defend against the negative impact of body dissatisfaction on eating disorder symptoms. The presence of skilled health workers in the field of nutrition and psychology can be extremely important in the field of fashion to maintain an adequate quality of life.
Highlights
Eating disorder [1,2,3] is the medical term used to describe an illness that is characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape.It can develop during any stage in life but typically appears during the teen years or young adulthood [4].It is widely recognized that negative body image is an important public health concern for societies globally because of its reliable association with symptoms of disordered eating and poorer psychological well-being
Twelve aspiring fashion models declined to participate to the study
The present study aimed to examine the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, and the mediating role of stress level in a sample of aspiring fashion models
Summary
Eating disorder [1,2,3] is the medical term used to describe an illness that is characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape.It can develop during any stage in life but typically appears during the teen years or young adulthood [4].It is widely recognized that negative body image is an important public health concern for societies globally because of its reliable association with symptoms of disordered eating and poorer psychological well-being. Eating disorder [1,2,3] is the medical term used to describe an illness that is characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape. It can develop during any stage in life but typically appears during the teen years or young adulthood [4]. In the field of eating disorders [5,6,7,8], elevated-risk groups might contain persons whose behavioral patterns feature as definite backgrounds of the future increase of an eating disorder, such as extreme dieting, professional pressure to be skinny, and undue exercise.
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