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Materialism and Disordered Eating Symptoms among Young Adult Women: Celebrity Worship and Internalization of Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance as Mediators

Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues / Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues, (P)1229-0661; (E)1229-0661
2017, v.23 no.4, pp.475-495
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2017.11.23.4.475




Abstract

The present study aimed to understand young adult women’s disordered eating symptoms with materialism and pathological celebrity worship. Specifically, we hypothesized that pathological celebrity worship and internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance would mediate the relationship between materialism and disordered eating symptoms among young adult women. A total of 601 female college students participated in this study. As hypothesized, we found that materialism predicted pathological celebrity worship and increased internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, which in turn, led to a higher level of disordered eating symptoms. Our findings suggest that young adult women’s disordered eating behaviors should be understood as a sociocultural phenomenon rather than as an individual woman’s personal issue.

keywords
materialism, celebrity worship, internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, disordered eating symptom, female, 물질주의, 연예인 숭배, 외모에 대한 사회문화적 규범의 내재화, 이상섭식행동, 여성

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