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KMID : 0904520170440010105
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Health and Medical Sociology
2017 Volume.44 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.132
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A Study on the Effects of Social Factors on Eating Disorder among Adolescent Girls Focusing on the Role of Family
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Kim Jung-Sun
Kwon Da-Ye
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Abstract
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This study attempts to examine the social dimension of eating disorder among adolescent girls in Korea, particularly focusing on the role of family. Recent studies on the cause of eating disorder in adolescent girls pointed out physical, psychological, and social factors such as BMI, stress, and pressures of media or friends are important in framing eating habits and perception of eating disorders. To examine the important dynamics of personal and social factors of eating disorder in adolescent girls in Korea, a survey was carried out in a girls’ high school in Daegu. In addition, to back up a survey data, in-depth interviews were conducted to 17 women with eating disorder problems.
Several significant results are as follows:
First, 13.4% of the respondents are have eating disorder and 28.4% are classified as “high risk for eating disorder group” in this survey. Eating disorder is serious problem in adolescent girls. Second, stress, family diet pressure, diet-will and media diet pressure affected Eat-26 (p<0.001). Especially, family diet pressure is the most influential factor in the level of Eat-26 (B=.248, t=3.849). Third, from the in-deapth interviews of 17 people who have experienced eating disorder, it is found that family’s diet pressure and abuse by family were key to start to diet which led them to eating disorder. It is found that family played a significant role in overcoming eating disorder.
In conclusion, this study suggests that we should look for multiple dimensions as cause of eating disorder among adolescent girls, including physical and mental aspect at individual level and various aspects of social factors. The result especially implies the crucial role of family in the whole process of eating disorder.
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KEYWORD
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Eating disorder, Family, Diet pressure, Adolescent girls, Media
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