Dieting and body image in the child's world: conceptualization and behavior.
Dieting and body image in the child's world: conceptualization and behavior.
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儿童世界中的节食和身体形象：概念化和行为。
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1999
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E. Gullone
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作者：
M. Kostanski;E. Gullone
作者检查了儿童（N = 431，年龄7岁至10岁9个月）对节食的理解和原因，以验证最近的研究表明，在青春期前人群中发生了对身体形象的不满和限制性饮食行为。2个重复完成任务的分数证实，儿童确实清楚地了解节食在意图和行为方面的含义（在本研究中，定义为故意限制饮食行为）。结果表明，7岁的儿童对自己目前的体型感到不满，并故意进行限制性饮食行为。这些发现验证了先前的研究，并强调了儿童从事有害健康行为的能力。鉴于极端的节食行为对儿童的身心健康有害，作者得出结论，需要进行研究，探索（a）这些态度和行为的起源以及（B）它们在整个童年时期的连续性或不连续性。
The authors examined children's (N = 431, aged 7 years to 10 years 9 months) understanding of and reasons for dieting, to validate recent research indicating that perceived body-image dissatisfaction and restrictive eating behaviors occur in pre-adolescent populations. Scores on 2 sentence-completion tasks confirmed that the children do have a clear understanding of what dieting means in terms of intent and behavior (defined, in this study, as intentional restrictive eating behaviors). The results indicated that children as young as 7 years of age report dissatisfaction with their current body size and deliberately engage in restrictive eating behaviors. These findings provide validation of previous research and emphasize children's capacity to engage in deleterious health behaviors. Given that extreme dieting behaviors are harmful to a child's physical and psychological well-being, the authors concluded that research exploring (a) the genesis of these attitudes and behaviors and (b) their continuity or discontinuity across childhood is required.