eating disorders, body image, and dichotomous thinking among japanese and russian college women饮食失调、身体形象和二分思维在日本和俄罗斯的女大学生.pdfVIP

Vol.4, No.7, 392-399 (2012) Health /10.4236/health.2012.47062 Eating disorders, body image, and dichotomous thinking among Japanese and Russian college * women Atsushi Oshio1#, Tatiana Meshkova2 1School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; #Corresponding Author: aoshio@ 2Department of Clinical Psychology and Special Education, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia Received 9 April 2012; revised 30 April 2012; accepted 17 May 2012 ABSTRACT and cultural differences are found in eating disturbances. For example, a previous meta-analytic study showed that This study explored cross-cultural differences white women living in Western countries experience between Japan and Russia in terms of women’s greater levels of eating disturbances and body dissatis- body images, proneness to eating disorders, faction than non-white women [1]. According to another and the effects of dichotomous thinking. Par- recent meta-analysis [2], non-Western participants scored ticipants included 419 Japanese and 187 Rus- higher than Western participants on an Eating Disorder sian college women who completed the Dicho- Inventory (EDI) [3], both in normal and eating disor- tomous Thinking Inventory (DTI), the 26-item ver- dered samples. Although many previous studies focused sion of the Eating Attitudes Test, and responses on mean-level differences, it is also meaningful to illu- regarding nine f