title: Internalization of the thin and muscular body ideal and disordered eating in adolescence: the mediation effects of body esteem.
abstract: This study investigates body esteem factors (weight-esteem and appearance-esteem) as mediators of the relationship between 'internalization of the ideal body figure' and disordered eating behaviors (restrained, emotional and external eating) in a community sample of adolescent males (n=810) and females (n=1137) from the Ontario Research on Eating and Adolescent Lifestyles (REAL) study. Mediation models were examined using a bootstrapping approach to test indirect effects and indirect contrasts. In males, weight-esteem partially mediated the relationship between muscular ideal and restrained eating; appearance-esteem partially mediated effects in the emotional and external eating regressions. In females, both weight-esteem and appearance-esteem partially mediated the relationship between thin ideal and all three forms of disordered eating; weight-esteem was a stronger mediator for restrained eating, and appearance-esteem a stronger mediator for emotional and external eating. Body esteem is important to consider for prevention and treatment of disordered eating in both genders.
authors: University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. martine.flament@rohcg.on.ca
authors: Martine F
authors: MF
authors: Flament
authors: Erin M
authors: EM
authors: Hill
authors: Annick
authors: A
authors: Buchholz
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Henderson
authors: Giorgio A
authors: GA
authors: Tasca
authors: Gary
authors: G
authors: Goldfield
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D004038:Diet, Reducing / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D056865:Ideal Body Weight; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D013008:Somatotypes; D013851:Thinness / Q000523:psychology*