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• Title: Eating and Acculturation in a Filipino American Population on a Small Hawaiian Island.
• Author : North American Journal of Psychology
• Release Date : January 01, 2007
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 209 KB

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The objective of our study was to examine the relationship between eating and U.S. acculturation in a largely Filipino American population living on a geographically isolated Hawaiian Island. Participants (N = 69) were 12-19 year old children enrolled in a public school. We measured eating disturbances, U.S. acculturation, body dissatisfaction, depression, self-esteem, family cohesion, self-loathing, and perfectionism using surveys. Level of U.S. acculturation predicted degree of eating disturbances. Eating pathology occurred in 17% of participants with girls showing a higher risk than boys. Body dissatisfaction, self-loathing, and perfectionism were significant predictors of eating disturbance. Results suggest that Filipino American children are at greater risk for eating disturbances as they and their families become more integrated with U.S. culture. Filipino populations immigrating to the United States may undergo significant changes in availability of foods and activity patterns. Perhaps as a consequence of these changes, Filipino immigration to the U.S. is associated with changes in eating patterns and tendency to develop eating pathology (Farrales & Chapman, 1999; Lauderdale & Rathouz, 2000). Eating disturbances are important to examine since Filipino Americans show high rates of hypertension and type-2 diabetes relative to other cultural groups (Colin Bell, Adair, & Popkin, 2002; Cuasay, Lee, Orlander, Steffen-Batey & Hanis, 2001). Research on Filipino Americans has indicated a surprising gender difference in risk of eating pathology. Filipino American males show a pattern of eating disorder symptoms and body dissatisfaction similar to that of White American females (Edman & Yates, 2005; Yates & Edman, 2004). Our study examines eating attitudes and related variables of a largely Filipino-American population residing on a remote and isolated Hawaiian Island.

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