The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - Tập 36 Số 3 - Trang 309-325 - 2010
Viren Swami1, David A. Frederick2, Toivo Aavik3, Lidia Alcalay4, Jüri Allïk3, Donna Anderson5, Sonny Andrianto6, Arvind Arora7, Åke Brännström8, John D. Cunningham9, Dariusz Danel10, Krystyna Doroszewicz11, Gordon B. Forbes12, Adrian Furnham13, Corina U. Greven14, Jamin Halberstadt5, Shuang Hao, Tanja Haubner15, Choon Sup Hwang16, Mary L. Inman17, Jas Laile Jaafar18, Jacob Johansson8, Jaehee Jung19, Aşkın Keser20, Uta Kretzschmar21, Lance Lachenicht22, Norman P. Li23, Kenneth D. Locke24, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist25, Christy Lopez26, Lynn Loutzenhiser27, Natalya C. Maisel26, Marita P. McCabe28, Donald R. McCreary29, William F. McKibbin30, Alex Mussap25, Félix Neto31, Carly Nowell28, Liane Peña Alampay32, Stefanie Pillai33, Alessandra Pokrajac-Bulian34, René T. Proyer35, Katinka Quintelier36, Lina A. Ricciardelli28, Małgorzata Rozmus-Wrzesińska37, Willibald Ruch35, Timothy Russo24, Astrid Schütz21, Todd K. Shackelford30, Sheeba Shashidharan7, Franco Simonetti4, Dhachayani Sinniah38, Mira Swami7, Griet Vandermassen36, Marijke Van Duynslaeger36, Markku Verkasalo25, Martin Voracek15, Curtis K. Yee26, Echo Xian Zhang, Xiaoying Zhang39, Ivanka Živčić–Bećirević40
1University of Westminster, UK, , HELP University College, Malaysia
2University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, USA
3University of Tartu, Estonia
4Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
5University of Otago, New Zealand
6Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
7Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust University, India
8International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, Umeå University, Sweden
9Macquarie University, Australia
10Polish Academy of Science, Poland
11Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
12Millikin University, USA
13University College, London, UK.
14Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
15University of Vienna, Austria
16Kyung Hee University, South Korea
17Hope College (USA)
18Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
19University of Delaware USA
20Kocaeli University, Turkey
21Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
22University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
23University of Texas at Austin, USA, Singapore Management University, Singapore
24University of Idaho, USA
25University of Helsinki, Finland
26University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
27University of Regina, Canada
28Deakin University, Australia
29Brock University, Canada, York University, Canada
30Florida Atlantic University USA
31Universidade de Porto, Portugal
32Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
33University Malaya, Malaysia
34University of Rijeka, Croatia
35University of Zurich, Switzerland
36Ghent University, Belgium
37University of Wroclaw, Poland
38Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
39Loughborough University, UK
40Universiti Kebangsaan Malysia, Malaysia

Tóm tắt

This study reports results from the first International Body Project (IBP-I), which surveyed 7,434 individuals in 10 major world regions about body weight ideals and body dissatisfaction. Participants completed the female Contour Drawing Figure Rating Scale (CDFRS) and self-reported their exposure to Western and local media. Results indicated there were significant cross-regional differences in the ideal female figure and body dissatisfaction, but effect sizes were small across high-socioeconomic-status (SES) sites. Within cultures, heavier bodies were preferred in low-SES sites compared to high-SES sites in Malaysia and South Africa ( ds = 1.94-2.49) but not in Austria. Participant age, body mass index (BMI), and Western media exposure predicted body weight ideals. BMI and Western media exposure predicted body dissatisfaction among women. Our results show that body dissatisfaction and desire for thinness is commonplace in high-SES settings across world regions, highlighting the need for international attention to this problem.

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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Tập 36 Số 3

309-325

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