Dissertation Summaries and Abstracts

摘要

Historically, theorists have conceptualized body dissatisfaction from two distinct vantage points: sociocultural and developmental. The literature needs an integrative etiological model to explain how variables interact over time. In 2009, Cheng and Mallinckrodt proposed a dual mediation model to address this critical gap. 1 tested this model, and a second model featuring friendship attachment anxiety, by investigating the role of parent-child bonds, friendship and romantic attachment anxiety, and media internalization in promoting body dissatisfaction. The participant sample included 309 females ages 12-24 from community and religious university settings. Results showed that mother/father care were nega-tively, indirectly linked to body image dissatisfaction through the mediators of attachment anxiety and media intemalization. Overall, findings supported the framework of Cheng and Mallinckrodt, who proposed that poor quality parental bonds, via the mechanisms of heightening romantic attachment anxiety and media intemalization, increase body dissatisfaction. Furthermore, results supported a second model featuring friendship attachment anxiety.