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Self-objectification and eating disorder pathology in an ethnically diverse sample of adult women: cross-sectional and short-term longitudinal associations.

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Extensive support exists for objectification theory's original aim of explaining patterns of women's mental health risk through a sociocultural lens. One pathway in objectification theory proposes a mediational role of body shame in the relationship between self-objectification and eating disorder (ED) pathology. Robust past cross-sectional research supports this proposed pathway, but largely in non-Hispanic Caucasian, college-aged samples; this pathway has yet to be empirically demonstrated longitudinally. Given previously documented concerns regarding direct measurement of body shame, we tested two measures of body shame as mediators in both cross-sectional and longitudinal models in a diverse sample of adult women.

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0
Journal
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Journal of eating disorders
Volume
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7
Number of Pages
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45
Date Published
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2019
URL
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https://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-019-0273-z
DOI
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10.1186/s40337-019-0273-z
Short Title
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J Eat Disord
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