Intraethnic comparison of eating attitudes in native Koreans and Korean Americans using a Korean translation of the eating attitudes test.
Although Asian samples have been studied using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the literature lacks data on Korean samples. Furthermore, although cross-cultural studies of eating disorders have been done, intraethnic studies are lacking. This study concerns an intraethnic Korean comparison of eating attitudes. The EAT-26 was translated into Korean and validated by back-translation and by a preliminary study on 32 bilingual (Korean and English-speaking) Korean women. The validated Korean translation was completed by a sample of 195 native South Koreans (NKs) and the original version by a sample of 39 Korean Americans (KAs). EAT-26 scores seemed to indicate that the NKs had more disordered eating attitudes. Furthermore, the KAs appear to be a low-risk sample for eating disorders. Implications for further research are discussed.
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New York University Medical Center, New York, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D019303:Multilingualism; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014177:Translations; D014481:United States