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The sociocultural model of disordered eating proposed by Boskind-White and White (1986) predicts that women with disordered eating will be high in feminine characteristics, while that of Steiner-Adair (1986) predicts they will ascribe to high levels of masculine traits in their ideal woman and perceive a greater discrepancy between their actual and ideal masculine characteristics. To test these predictions 149 women completed questionnaire assessing sex role characteristics and eating attitudes. Positive correlations were found between measures of disordered eating and the extent to which women believed they possessed negative feminine characteristics. There was a greater discrepancy between self and ideal masculine positive scores in subjects with greater eating disturbances. Aspects of sociocultural models of disordered eating receive support from the data.
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Paxton, S.J., Sculthorpe, A. Disordered eating and sex role characteristics in young women: Implications for sociocultural theories of disturbed eating. Sex Roles 24, 587–598 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288415
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