The associations of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance with body dissatisfaction and eating behaviors in Hong Kong adolescents

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 320-324

  Lai, Ching Man ^a   Mak, Kwok Kei ^b   Pang, Joyce S ^c   Fong, Shirley S M ^d   Ho, Roger C M ^e   Guldan, Georgia S ^f  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Body dissatisfaction; Eating behaviors; Motivations for eating; Sociocultural attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; EATING ATTITUDES TEST; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIGURE RATING SCALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTIVATION FOR EATING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVISED RESTRAINT SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOCULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS APPEARANCE SCALE;

BODY DISSATISFACTION; EATING BEHAVIORS; MOTIVATIONS FOR EATING; SOCIOCULTURAL ATTITUDES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CULTURE; EATING; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84879481595     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: 18737358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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