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Moderation Effects of Ethnic-Racial Identity on Disordered Eating and Ethnicity Among Asian and Caucasian Americans.

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The current study was designed to examine whether ethnic-racial identity (ERI) moderated the relationship between disordered eating and primary ethnic identification. Three hundred and ninety-eight undergraduate women ( = 19.95, = 3.09) were recruited from a large university in Hawai'i. Participants completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), the ERI measure, and reported their primary ethnicity as an index of ethnicity. There was a significant correlation between eating concerns and centrality, = 0.127, < 0.05. Moderation analyses indicated that only ERI centrality moderated the predictive effect of ethnicity on the importance of eating concerns, = 0.05, = 2.37, = 18. The results suggest that the relationship between self-reported primary ethnicity and EDEQ scores is greater when ethnicity is more central to the individual's identity or when the in-group affect is important to an individual. Findings underscore the need for further research on the underlying mechanisms that account for the differing ways that ERI may affect eating concerns.

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0
Journal
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Frontiers in psychology
Volume
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12
Number of Pages
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594391
Date Published
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2021
URL
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.594391
DOI
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10.3389/fpsyg.2021.594391
Short Title
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Front Psychol
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