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Title: | Drive for thinness as a women's strategy to avoid inferiority | Authors: | Ferreira, C. Pinto-Gouveia, J. Duarte, C. |
Keywords: | Striving; Social rank mentality; eating disorder' symptoms; Thinness | Issue Date: | 2013 | Abstract: | The emphasis on the need to achieve and be successful, and the contextual competitive dynamics in Western societies, may explain the increase of distinct forms of psychopathology. This study examined sex differences relative to the expression and consequences of feeling under pressure to compete to avoid a threatening social position. Also, we tested whether insecure striving moderates the impact of a low social rank on drive for thinness, in women. In this cross-sectional study self-report measures of insecure striving and secure non-striving, social comparison, depression, anxiety and stress, and eating disorders symptomatology were completed by a sample of 245 male and 429 female students. For both men and women, the need to strive is associated with general psychopathological symptoms (depression, anxiety and stress). Furthermore, insecure striving was a significant moderator between a low social rank and the endorsement of the importance of thinness and dieting behaviours in women. These findings support the hypothesis that drive for thinness arises as a competitive weapon to assure a secure place in the social world. | Description: | Ferreira, C., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Duarte, C. (2013). Drive for thinness as a women's strategy to avoid inferiority. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 13(1), 15-29. http://www.ijpsy.com/volumen13/num1/344.html | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/46805 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CINEICC - Artigos em Revistas Nacionais |
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