Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?

<p>The present study examines disordered eating, sorority social norms regarding the body and thinness, personal values regarding the body and thinness, body dissatisfaction, thin ideal internalization, fat talk, negative affect, and positive affect among sorority and non-sorority women. The aims of this study are to discern the underlying factor structures of the sorority/group social norms questionnaires and the personal values regarding the body and thinness questionnaire, investigate disordered eating among sorority and non-sorority women over time, and further examine the impact of social norms on sorority women's body and eating attitudes and behaviors. The results of this research illustrated three main findings. First, sorority women did not differ from non-sorority women on eating pathology. Second, fat talk, personal values regarding the body and thinness, and body mass index predict increased disordered eating over time in the general college population of women. Third, the sorority and group social norms scale, as well as the personal values regarding the body and thinness measure, were all developed and validated in this research. Additionally, the sorority/group social norms questionnaires and the personal values regarding the body and thinness questionnaire were validated.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Rolnik, Ashley Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Psychology
• Copyright © 2014 Ashley Marie Rolnik
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

• college women
• disordered eating
• sorority
• Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1111

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss-2110