The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of enculturation and racial identity in the prediction of body dissatisfaction and weight preoccupation in a sample of African American women. Participants consisted of 278 African American female college students enrolled in a large Midwestern university who completed a racial identity measure, an African American enculturation measure, and body dissatisfaction measures. Simultaneous regression results suggested that preencounter self-hatred attitudes were the only racial identity dimension to significantly predict body dissatisfaction. In addition, the level of enculturation significantly predicted body dissatisfaction, suggesting that African American women who were highly enculturated experienced greater body dissatisfaction. Subsequent mediational analyses found that body mass index fully mediated the relationship between enculturation and body dissatisfaction for African American women. Greater enculturation was associated with a higher body mass index, which in turn predicted greater overweight preoccupation. Study implications are discussed.

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文化融合、种族认同和体重指数在预测非裔美国女性身体不满意中的作用

当前研究的目的是在非裔美国女性样本中检查文化融合和种族认同在预测身体不满和体重关注中的作用。参与者包括在中西部一所大型大学就读的 278 名非裔美国女大学生，她们完成了种族认同测量、非裔美国人文化融入测量和身体不满测量。同时回归结果表明，遭遇前的自我憎恨态度是唯一能显着预测身体不满的种族身份维度。此外，文化程度显着预测了身体不满意，这表明高度文化化的非裔美国女性对身体的不满更大。随后的中介分析发现，体重指数完全调节了非裔美国女性的文化适应和身体不满之间的关系。更多的文化与更高的体重指数相关，这反过来预示着更大的超重关注。讨论了研究意义。