title: Asian body image satisfaction: ethnic and gender differences across Chinese, Indo-Asian, and European-descent students.
abstract: This study extends previous research on ethnocultural differences in body image satisfaction by comparing two distinct Asian groups with a European descent group (N = 1471). Canadian undergraduates completed self-report body image measures. Participants descended from China reported the lowest levels of body satisfaction. Body satisfaction of participants descended from Indo-Asia was the next lowest, significantly lower than their European descent counterparts. The body satisfaction of women was lower than that of men across all groups and all participants expressed a desire to be thinner. The results suggest that one cannot generalize across Asian populations, as there may be significant differences between various ethnic minority groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. alexiskennedy@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M Alexis
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Templeton
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gandhi
authors.forename: Boris B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Gorzalka