The present cross-sectional design study examined six factors and their associations with disordered eating among 129 Lebanese men who identified themselves as gay. The factors under study were self-objectification, body dissatisfaction, shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, positive minority identity, and a sense of connectedness to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Nongovernmental organizations that advocate for LGBT individuals assisted in the recruitment of participants. Data were analyzed through a hierarchical multiple regression, and age, education level, socioeconomic status, and religious affiliation were controlled for. The control variables alone explained 6% of the variance, and the six variables of interest within this study explained an additional 25% after being entered into the model. Self-objectification and shame-proneness were significantly, positively related to disordered eating among the participants in this study. In contrast to prior research, body dissatisfaction was not significantly associated with disordered eating in the present study. Results of this study indicate that self-objectification and shame-proneness might be important issues to consider in clinical work with gay Lebanese men exhibiting disordered eating symptomatology.

目前的横断面设计研究检查了129名自称是同性恋的黎巴嫩男性中的六个因素及其与饮食失调的关系。研究的因素包括自我客体化，身体不满，羞愧，内，积极的少数族裔认同以及与同性恋，双性恋和变性者（LGBT）社区的联系感。倡导LGBT个人的非政府组织协助招募参与者。通过分层多元回归分析数据，并控制了年龄，教育水平，社会经济地位和宗教信仰。仅控制变量就解释了6％的方差，而本研究中感兴趣的六个变量在输入模型后解释了另外的25％。这项研究的参与者中，自我客观化和羞耻感与饮食失调呈显着正相关。与先前的研究相反，在本研究中，身体不满意与饮食失调没有显着相关。这项研究的结果表明，对于表现出饮食症状紊乱的同性恋黎巴嫩男性，临床工作中应该考虑自我客观化和易于羞耻感。