Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Technological and economic globalisation has been suggested as a cause of increasing rates of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders globally, especially as regards the impact of mass media on internalised body ideals. This process is rarely observed in action, however. The current work investigates multiple aspects of body ideals, body image, sociocultural attitudes and eating attitudes in 62 Creole and Mestizo women living in communities at differing stages of technological development on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua METHOD/RESULTS: In Study 1, women used 3D avatar software to create their own 'ideal' body without the constraints of ready-made stimuli. Analyses of resulting avatars showed that components of the ideal body shape (upper and lower body curvaceousnes

SUBMITTER: Thornborrow T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9450464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature