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- Title
Eating Pathology in International Vietnamese and White American Undergraduate Women in the United States.
- Authors
Nguyen, Ngoc; Soysa, Champika K.
- Abstract
Vietnamese women are understudied in the eating pathology literature (Ko et al., 2015). Addressing this gap, we used a social-cognitive perspective (Fiske & Taylor, 2017) to investigate aspects and predictors of eating pathology in 44 international Vietnamese and 40 White American undergraduate women, both studying in the United States. Our hypotheses were partially supported. Contributing to the literature, we found that there were significant differences across aspects of eating pathology between the two ethnic/cultural groups (p = .003, ηp² = .25), where international Vietnamese undergraduate women reported significantly greater pathological eating than their White American counterparts. We confirmed that body dissatisfaction was the predominant aspect of eating pathology in both ethnic/cultural groups, and that culturally shaped self-schemata might have influenced compensatory pathological eating behaviors. Finally, we found that friend influence positively predicted pathological eating in international Vietnamese (β = .40, p = .014), and partner influence positively predicted pathological eating in White Americans (β = .46, p = .003). Our results may reflect cognitive schemata shaped by sociocultural norms in the relatively collectivistic culture in Vietnam compared to the more individualistic culture in the United States (Parks & Vu, 1994). Our findings could inform ethnic variations in interventions that target specific aspects of eating pathology in college students.
- Subjects
EATING disorders; VIETNAMESE people; FOOD habits; PATHOLOGY; UNDERGRADUATES
- Publication
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 4, p222
- ISSN
2164-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24839/2325-7342.JN24.4.222