Eating attitudes among Japanese and American elementary schoolgirls.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Mukai, Takayo; McCloskey, Laura A.
- Source
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Jul96, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p424, 12p, 2 Charts
- Subject
- FOOD habits
GIRLS
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CROSS-cultural studies
- Language
- ISSN
- 00220221
Examined familial and peer correlates of eating attitudes in American and Japanese preadolescent girls. Frequency of dieting and weight control behavior; Social influences that lead to girls' self-perceptions of being overweight regardless of their actual weight; Greater familial than peer influences on the Japanese girls' eating attitudes and behavior.