| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to examine the role
of sociocultural factors in the occurrence of
pathological eating attitudes and behaviours by
determining the relationship between acculturation to
Canada, as a Western culture , and eating attitudes and
behaviours in a nonclinical sample of female Chinese
and Caucasian university students. In addition , as an
exploratory goal any possible relationship between
acculuturative stress and eating attitudes and
behaviours was also explored.
One hundred female Caucasian and 131 female
Chinese undergraduate students were recruited from the
University of British Columbia. Each subject was asked
to complete a Demographic Questionnaire as well as the
26 item Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner, Olmsted,
Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982). Additionally , the Chinese
subjects were asked to complete the Suinn-Lew Asian
Self-Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA; Suinn,
Rickard-Figueroa, Lew, & Vigil, 1987) and the 24 item
SAFE Acculturative Stress Scale (SAFE; Mean, Padilla, &
Maldonado, 1987).
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