PubMed · 12426831
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P Heintzen. 2002. ["Memory, speak....". Observations on integration problems].. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-002-0864-5
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OBJECTIVE: Acculturation and loss of ethnic identification have been proposed as risk factors for eating and body image disturbance among women of color. This study investigated whether being teased about racial or ethnic features might also play a role in these disturbances in minority women. METHODS: One hundred twenty-two college women of South Asian descent completed questionnaire measures of disturbed eating behavior, body image dissatisfaction, distress, self-esteem, acculturation, ethnic identification, and racial teasing. RESULTS: History of hurtful racial teasing, but not acculturation or ethnic disidentification, was associated with disturbed eating and body image, even after controlling for distress, self-esteem, and body mass. CONCLUSION: The psychological impact of racial teasing may be a potent but neglected source of eating and body image disturbance among minority women.
OBJECTIVES: Clock drawing tests (CDT) appear to be less vulnerable to linguistic, cultural, or educational bias than traditional dementia screening instruments. We investigated a Spanish language translation of CLOX: an executive CDT, in a community sample of Hispanic elders. METHODS: In-home CLOX evaluations of 1309 Mexican-American elders were reviewed. RESULTS: Both CLOX1 (an executive CDT) and CLOX2 (a constructional CDT) showed good internal consistency (Chronbach's alpha; both alpha = 0.82). Cultural-demographic variables had little effect on CLOX scores. Although language had a significant effect on CLOX1 failure rates, this was not mediated by age, education, acculturation or income. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the Spanish CLOX can be validly administered to community-based Hispanic elder samples regardless of education or acculturation.
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the prevalence of eating disorder symptoms in Black South African men and also explored their possible links with acculturation. METHOD: The Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) and the South African Acculturation Scale (SAAS) were administered to a sample of undergraduate students consisting of 50 Black women, 50 Black men and 50 White men. RESULTS: The Black men had significantly higher scores than the White men on the psychological subscales of the EDI and higher than cut-off scores on perfectionism, interpersonal distrust and maturity fears subscales. There were marginal racial differences in the average acculturation scores, whereas gender appeared to have a variable effect on acculturation attitudes. Specific acculturation strategies were found to be differentially associated with the EDI subscales. The association between acculturation and eating disorder symptoms in Black men was significantly higher than that in White men. DISCUSSION: Our results indicate that there is a higher prevalence of eating disorder pathology in Black men than in White men. This lends support to the possible association between acculturation and eating disorders, and challenges the assumption that non-Western individuals--and Black men in particular--are protected from body image disturbances and disordered eating patterns.