title: Evaluative concerns and personal standards perfectionism as predictors of body dissatisfaction in Asian and European American female college students.
abstract: The present study examined perfectionism (viz, evaluative concerns and personal standards) and ethnicity as predictors of body dissatisfaction in female college students.
  
  
  
  Participants were 298 female college students sampled by December of 2013.
  
  
  
  A self-report survey with measures of body dissatisfaction, perfectionism, and demographics was conducted.
  
  
  
  Regression analyses indicated that evaluative concerns perfectionism (ECP) was a significant predictor of body dissatisfaction. The inclusion of ethnicity was found to further augment the prediction model. Moreover, we found support for an ECP × Ethnicity interaction effect in predicting body dissatisfaction. Specifically, among high-ECP female students, European Americans, compared with Asian Americans, reported the highest level of body dissatisfaction.
  
  
  
  High ECP represents a potential marker of body dissatisfaction in female college students. However, the presence of high ECP is a more critical predictor of body dissatisfaction in European American female students, compared with Asian American female students.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Edward C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Tina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: b Research in Action Academy™ , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Olivia D
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA.
authors.forename: Zunaira
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jilani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001213:Asian; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015146:Midwestern United States; D008960:Models, Psychological; D000072639:Perfectionism; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Body dissatisfaction; college students; ethnicity; females; perfectionism