Title:
The role of spirituality in the internalization of objectification and eating disorder symptomatology in women
Author:
Dayna M. Pizzigoni
Thesis Advisor:
Kari A. O'Grady
Committee Member:
Gina Magyar-Russell
Committee Member:
Jesse Fox
Committee Member:
Bonnie Moradi
Committee Member:
L. Mickey Fenzel
Committee Member:
Amanda Thomas
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2017
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
This study highlights consistent empirical associations among religious crisis, sacred appraisals of the body, internalized objectification, and eating disorder symptomatology in women. The sample includes 252 women from subsamples of women over 18 years of age in undergraduate studies, in graduate studies, and in treatment for eating disorders in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Links noted above remained significant after controlling for body mass index, age, and religious involvement. A multivariate analysis demonstrated that students reported higher levels of spirituality than patients, but no average differences in spiritual transcendence were found at the univariate level. Notably, religious crisis accounted for individual differences in body shame over and above the contributions of internalized beauty standards and the aforementioned control variables. Sacred appraisals of the body, most importantly, was the only psycho-spiritual variable to account for variations in eating disorder symptomatology for women in treatment. Sacred appraisals of the body show promise as a buffer to internalizing objectification for women. Conceptual distinctions between constructive vs. destructive sanctification of the body among women struggling with eating disorders are introduced.
Subject:
Teenage girls
Subject:
Respect
Subject:
Spirituality
Subject:
Body weight
Subject:
Image of God
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Pastoral Counseling
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Identifier:
PizzigoniDM-17
