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dc.contributor.authorWang, Kui
dc.contributor.authorLiang, Rui
dc.contributor.authorYu, Xinyang
dc.contributor.authorShum, David HK
dc.contributor.authorRoalf, David
dc.contributor.authorChan, Raymond CK
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T00:22:31Z
dc.date.available2020-07-24T00:22:31Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2046-0252
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/pchj.346
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/395727
dc.description.abstractInternalization of the “thin ideal” is a risk factor for eating pathology. It is unclear how pervasive the thin ideal is among young Chinese. In the current study, 97 participants reported their subjective willingness to be thin and their eating‐disorder‐related weight‐controlling behaviors, and then finished a picture judgment task to implicitly detect their perception of the importance of thinness to attractiveness. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze the data. Among female participants, 79.59% wanted a thinner body. Participants' level of willingness to be thin correlated positively with frequency of eating‐disorder‐related weight‐controlling behaviors, r = .47, p <  .05. In the implicit task, the judgment of others' attractiveness correlated negatively with body mass index (BMI) evaluation, and this relationship was stronger for women's pictures than for men's pictures. Additionally, an individual's willingness to be thin enhanced the relationship between BMI evaluation and attractiveness judgment. The notion “the thinner the better” seems to be widely accepted among young Chinese.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPsyCh Journal
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciences
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology, Multidisciplinary
dc.subject.keywordsattractiveness
dc.subject.keywordsbody dissatisfaction
dc.titleThe thinner the better: Evidence on the internalization of the slimness ideal in Chinese college students
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWang, K; Liang, R; Yu, X; Shum, DHK; Roalf, D; Chan, RCK, The thinner the better: Evidence on the internalization of the slimness ideal in Chinese college students, PsyCh Journal, 2020
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-12-03
dc.date.updated2020-07-24T00:21:20Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorShum, David


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