Geographical clustering of eating disordered behaviors in U.S. high school students

Forman‐Hoffman, Valerie L.; Cunningham, Cassie

doi:10.1002/eat.20491

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“…These results are supported by several previous studies which have demonstrated similar social contagion effects [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]32], but contribute to existing literature in important ways. By using a 5-year longitudinal dataset and adjusting analyses for use of disordered eating behavior at baseline, we were able to examine change in these behaviors across adolescence, which has not been done previously.…”

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confidence: 84%

Friends' Dieting and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Adolescents Five Years Later: Findings From Project EAT

Eisenberg¹,

Neumark‐Sztainer²

2010

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Friends' Dieting and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Adolescents Five Years Later: Findings From Project EAT

Eisenberg¹,

Neumark‐Sztainer²

2010

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…It will also be important to identify the shared environmental factors (i.e., experiences that co-twins share and would make twins more likely to select similar peer groups) that contribute to selection. These experiences could be due to macro-level variables, such as influences within specific communities contributing to increased emphasis on the thin-ideal/disordered eating behaviors (e.g., the clustering of eating disordered behaviors within counties; see Forman-Hoffman & Cunningham, 2008). Micro shared environmental effects, such as family attitudes regarding weight/dieting (Rodgers & Chabrol, 2009), may also contribute.…”

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Socialization and selection effects in the association between weight conscious peer groups and thin-ideal internalization: A co-twin control study

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Affiliation with weight conscious peer groups is theorized to increase thin-ideal internalization through socialization processes. However, selection effects could contribute if genetic and/or environmental predispositions lead to affiliation with weight conscious peers. Co-twin control methodology was used to examine socialization and selection effects in 614 female twins (ages 8–15) from the Michigan State University Twin Registry (MSUTR). Thin-ideal internalization and peer group characteristics were assessed via self-report questionnaires. Results suggested the presence of both socialization and selection effects. In terms of socialization, twins who reported increased exposure to weight conscious peers relative to their co-twins had elevated thin-ideal internalization scores, regardless of zygosity. However, associations between weight conscious peers and thin-ideal internationalization within twin pairs were attenuated, suggesting that genetic and shared environmental selection effects also contribute. Findings significantly extend previous work by confirming the presence of socialization processes and highlighting selection processes to be examined in future longitudinal research.

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“…38 Evidence also shows that adolescent eating disordered behaviors and adult smoking prevalence and cessation rates are impacted by the extent to which other members an individual's peer group engage in the behavior. [39][40] Contagion may also explain why the protest of the statue's removal spread from unlawful rioting and looting in the streets of Tallinn to unlawful protest online in the form of the attacks on Estonia's Internet infrastructure. There is evidence that legal violations spread not just across populations but also across types of violations.…”

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Storming the Servers: A Social Psychological Analysis of the First Internet War

Guadagno

Cialdini

Evron

2010

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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In April 2007, the First Internet War began. Owing to the relocation of a World War II-era Soviet war memorial in Estonia, angry protestors, primarily of Russian descent, engaged in a month-long series of coordinated online attacks on Estonia's Internet infrastructure that disabled it for several days. We analyze this real-world event from a social psychological perspective. Specifically, we review the details surrounding the event and examine why protest manifested in this form of online attack and discuss how it was successfully orchestrated from a framework provided by social psychology, the science of human social interaction. We argue that the psychological principles of loss, relative anonymity of online interaction, group membership and adherence to group norms, social validation, and contagion all contributed to the success of the attacks.

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Geographical clustering of eating disordered behaviors in U.S. high school students

Abstract: The significant clustering of weight control and eating disorder behavior in U.S. high school students confirms evidence of a social contagion effect of eating disorders.

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

Friends' Dieting and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Adolescents Five Years Later: Findings From Project EAT

Friends' Dieting and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Adolescents Five Years Later: Findings From Project EAT

Socialization and selection effects in the association between weight conscious peer groups and thin-ideal internalization: A co-twin control study

Storming the Servers: A Social Psychological Analysis of the First Internet War

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