Associations among retrospective parenting styles, retrospective food parenting, and current eating behaviors in Chinese adults

LIN Yitong, LU Chen, HUANG Zizhen, Wesley R. BARNHART, CUI Tianxiang, HE Jinbo
March 2023
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Abstract

Considerable evidence exists on the associations of celebrity worship with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. However, relevant findings are confined to Western contexts and thinness-oriented body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. Consequently, the relationships of celebrity worship with muscularity-oriented body dissatisfaction and disordered eating are largely underexplored, especially in non-Western countries. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationships of celebrity worship with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in China. A total of 593 young adult celebrity worshippers in China were recruited online. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted. In contrast to previous findings, celebrity worship was not associated with thinness-oriented body dissatisfaction. However, significant associations were identified between celebrity worship and muscularity-oriented body dissatisfaction for men (r = 0.32, p < .001) and women (r = 0.26, p < .001), thinness-oriented disordered eating for men (r = 0.31, p < .001) and women (r = 0.37, p < .001), and muscularity-oriented disordered eating for men (r = 0.58, p < .001). Body image inflexibility mediated the associations between celebrity worship and disordered eating in men and women. Findings indicate that celebrity worship correlates positively with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in Chinese young adults.

Type
Journal article
Publication
Body Image, 45, 210-218
celebrity worship body dissatisfaction disordered eating Chinese
LIN Yitong
LIN Yitong
Current Undergraduate Advisee in Applied Psychology
LU Chen
LU Chen
HUANG Zizhen
HUANG Zizhen
Current Undergraduate Advisee in Applied Psychology
CUI Tianxiang
CUI Tianxiang
PhD Student in Psychology

My research interests include body image, eating behaviors, quantitative methods in psychology, and music psychology.

HE Jinbo
HE Jinbo
Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology

My research interests include the mental health of children and adolescents, obesity, eating behaviors, eating disorders, body image, and various advanced quantitative research methods (e.g., structural equation modeling, latent growth curve modeling, finite mixture modeling, meta-analysis).