Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

Nasser, Mervat; Katzman, Melanie; Gordon, Richard A.

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“…Christians are more exposed to modern culture, and thus their attitudes, norms, values, and behaviors reflect Western/modern influences. 6,[22][23][24] The research results are in line with a previous study conducted in Israel, 15 using EAT-26 to examine the eating attitudes of five Arab subgroups: Moslems, Christians, Druze, Bedouins, and Circassians. The results indicated that the Circassian adolescents had the lowest scores for total eating pathology and for most subscales of the EAT-26, whereas the Moslem adolescents had the highest scores (Bedouins, 19.4%; Moslems, 18.6%; Christians, 15.4%; Druze, 14.3%; and Circassians, 8.0%).…”

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“…Cultural change in non-Western countries involving identification with Western norms of shape and body weight is consistently correlated with an increase in weight consciousness and the risk of developing eating disorders. [3][4][5][6] As a unique multicultural society encompassing various ethnic and religious groups and immigrants from many different countries, Israel is coping with the same issues. In the last three decades, large numbers of Israeli-Jewish adolescents in nonclinical settings have been found to have abnormal eating attitudes and weight concerns 7-9 (Latzer et al Comparative study of eating related attitudes and psychological traits between Israeli Arab and Jewish schoolgirls.…”

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Disordered eating related behaviors among Arab schoolgirls in Israel: An epidemiological study

Latzer

Tzischinsky

Azaiza

2006

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective: To examine the prevalence of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors among three religious subgroups of Arab schoolgirls in Israel (Moslems, Druze, and Christians).Method: The sample consisted of 1,131 Arab schoolgirls in Israel, including 922 (81.5%) Moslem, 125 (11.1%) Christian, and 84 (7.4%) Druze adolescents, in the 7-12th grades. The sample was drawn from urban and rural residential settings from all parts of Israel using a clusters sampling method.Results: The Christian subgroup had a significantly lower total eating disorder inventory-2 (EDI-2) score than the Druze and Moslem subgroups, which had similar total EDI-2 scores. Significant differences were found between the three religious subgroups in all subscales, except in drive for thinness (DT), bulimia, body dissatisfaction, and asceticism. A total of 154 (13%) Arab schoolgirls scored higher than the cut-off point of 14 on the EDI-DT subscale. Conclusion:The results are discussed in light of the differences between the Christian, Druze, and Moslem subgroups and in terms of various aspects of Arab culture in Israel. V V C 2006 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Disordered eating related behaviors among Arab schoolgirls in Israel: An epidemiological study

Latzer

Tzischinsky

Azaiza

2006

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Research in the last 20 years, however, suggests that eating pathology exists and may be increasing in various cultural and ethnic groups in the United States and internationally. 1 Despite increasing evidence that differences are narrowing across ethnic and racial groups in the United States, findings generally suggest that Hispanic-American women experience rates of eating pathology and body image disturbance similar to Euro-American women. [2][3][4][5] Given increasing evidence of eating pathology in non-Western cultures and ethnic minority groups in the United States, continued research investigating and comparing eating pathology within and between cultural groups is imperative.…”

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English and Spanish versions of the Body Shape Questionnaire: Measurement equivalence across ethnicity and clinical status

Warren

Cepeda-Benito

Gleaves

et al. 2007

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Moreover, "to some degree, for all women, the critical work of separation, differentiation, and integrating sexuality are displaced on to a struggle to manage one's appetite for food and to transform one's body" (Bloom and Kogel 1994b: 53). (Bloom and Kogel's reference to "all women" belies the tendency of many feminists and psychotherapists to make universalistic claims about women, a tendency which has been challenged by authors such as Thompson (1994), Trepagnier (1994), Nasser, Katzman and Gordon (2001).) Thus, the psychodynamics of gendered subjectivity for contemporary western women fits in with the consuming and regulatory dynamics of consumerism; both publicly and privately, women "work on themselves", fantasizing about how they would look if they lost weight, or exercised more.…”

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A Feminist, Psychotherapeutic Approach to Working with Women who Eat Compulsively

Heenan¹

2008

Psychological Responses to Eating Disorders and Obesity

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Feminist psychoanalytic theorists argue that eating problems demonstrate ways in which conscious and unconscious gendered feelings about women are split off and projected onto their bodies. As such, they are complex ways in which women attempt to negotiate and express their identities within their paradoxical social position in contemporary western society. They are not just consumers but also objects of consumption. This paper explores material from a feminist psychodynamic therapy group for women with a variety of eating problems, focusing on how interweaving both discursive and unconscious approaches to understanding the gendered function of weight can facilitate change. Feminist psychodynamic therapists work with the concept that the body is an interface between conscious and unconscious mind within both an internal and a social world. This framework enables the client to understand the connections between socially constructed frameworks of femininity, emotions and bodily sensations, rather than to act on them through some form of bodily abuse. This approach is based on my adaptation of Susie Orbach's (1978) 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' therapeutic model for working with compulsive eaters. While arguing that a feminist psychoanalytic framework is crucial in this type of work, I suggest that it is essential to combine this with cognitive and behavioural therapeutic interventions in order to provide a pedagogic structure in which food, eating and body size come to be seen as meaningful.

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Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

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Disordered eating related behaviors among Arab schoolgirls in Israel: An epidemiological study

Disordered eating related behaviors among Arab schoolgirls in Israel: An epidemiological study

English and Spanish versions of the Body Shape Questionnaire: Measurement equivalence across ethnicity and clinical status

A Feminist, Psychotherapeutic Approach to Working with Women who Eat Compulsively

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