The authors investigated the relations among machismo, gender role conflict, and mental health in 113 Mexican American men recruited from campus organizations and the local community. Regression analyses controlling for acculturation indicated that machismo and gender role conflict both predicted levels of stress and depression. Higher levels of machismo and restrictive emotionality were associated with higher levels of depression and stress. The interaction of machismo and gender role conflict was not a significant predictor of either stress or depression. Implications of the findings for counseling and future research are discussed.
Using a sample of Caucasian and Asian American college students, this research examined gender differences within race and race differences within gender with respect to a wide range of body image and disordered eating variables. Results indicated that: (a) regardless of race, women reported more problem attitudes and behaviors than did men; (b) gender differences were similar for Asian Americans and Caucasians, although Caucasians evidenced slightly more gender differences than did Asian Americans; (c) for men, race made no difference; and (d) for women, some race differences were found, with Caucasian women engaging in more dieting and binging behavior and Asian American women reporting lower self-esteem and less satisfaction with their racially defined features. Suggestions for future research are made, and implications are discussed.
Many individuals struggle with body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating.There has been much research on both the prevalence and correlates of a poor body image and on the engagement in weight control strategies associated with
In this article the relationship among acculturation, body image, self‐esteem, and eating disorder symptomatology in 120 Mexican American adolescent women was investigated. Surprisingly, acculturation levels were not related to anorexic or bulimic symptomatology, self‐esteem, body dissatisfaction or thinness of ideal and attractive figures. Lower levels of self‐esteem predicted higher levels of anorexic and bulimic symptomatology. Body mass was positively related to bulimic scores. In contrast to Lester and Petrie (1995), body dissatisfaction was significantly related to eating‐disorder symptomatology. The high levels of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors found in this study suggest that rather than exclusively being an Anglo, middle‐to upper‐class phenomenon, eating‐disordered behavior also exists within lower socioeconomic status Mexican American adolescent women.
In an effort to examine the uniformity myth as it pertains to adult children of alcoholics (ACAs), the relationship of presence of parental alcoholism to eating disorder symptomatology and substance use in a nonclinical, female college sample was examined. In addition, within-group differences among ACAs related to level of distress concerning parental alcohol use were examined. Parental alcoholism was not related to substance use and minimally related to eating disorder symptomatology. Level of distress differentiated among ACAs in terms of two eating disorder variables. The results add additional evidence to the notion that not all ACAs are alike and that not all suffer from psychological problems. Implications are discussed, and recommendations for future research are made.
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