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ERIC Number: EJ762496
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Apr
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0167
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Objectification Theory and Deaf Cultural Identity Attitudes: Roles in Deaf Women's Eating Disorder Symptomatology
Moradi, Bonnie; Rottenstein, Adena
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v54 n2 p178-188 Apr 2007
This study examined the generalizability of direct and mediated links posited in objectification theory among internalization of sociocultural standards of beauty, body surveillance, body shame, and eating disorder symptoms with a sample of Deaf women. The study also examined the role of marginal Deaf cultural identity attitudes within this framework. Data from 177 Deaf women indicated positive relations among internalization, body surveillance, body shame, and eating disorder symptomatology. Consistent with tenets of objectification theory, body shame mediated the links of internalization and body surveillance with eating disorder symptoms. In addition, marginal Deaf identity attitudes (but not hearing, immersion, or bicultural attitudes) were linked uniquely with eating disorder constructs and had significant indirect relations through internalization with body surveillance, body shame, and eating disorder symptoms. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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