Unpacking body image concerns and disordered eating for transgender women: The roles of sexual objectification and minority stress.
2019/01/31 by Melanie E. Brewster, Brandon L. Velez, Aaron S. Breslow +2 · 31 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Media, Gender, and Advertising
paper · doi:10.1037/cou0000333
Abstract
Synthesizing both objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) and minority stress theory (Meyer, 2003), the present study used a pantheoretical model of dehumanization (Moradi, 2013) to examine body image concerns and disordered eating symptomatology with 205 transgender women from the United States. Objectification theory constructs (i.e., sexual objectification, internalization of sociocultural standards of attractiveness, body surveillance, body dissatisfaction) and minority stress-related variables (i.e., antitransgender discrimination) were examined as direct and indirect predictors of disordered eating. Results of a latent variable SEM (with a higher-order dehumanization factor comprised of sexual objectification and discrimination) generally provided support for our hypothesized direct and indirect relations. As expected, dehumanization was related directly to internalization and disordered eating and had significant indirect links to body surveillance, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating via internalization. Potential implications of a pantheoretical model for future research with transgender women are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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