Eating Disorder Risks and Personality Variables Among Black Women

dc.contributor.advisorWard, Kimberly U.
dc.contributor.authorMoye, Shereese
dc.contributor.committeememberBoyer-Pennington, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-23T22:01:56Z
dc.date.available2020-07-23T22:01:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-07-23T22:01:57Z
dc.description.abstractPersonality characteristics along with acculturation factors associated with the western African American culture were examined to determine eating disorder risk for women of African American, African, Afro Caribbean, and biracial descent. All 66 female participants from a variety of black ethnicities were recruited from various social media and digital platforms. They participated in a survey that contained measures pertaining to acculturation, self-esteem, personality traits, eating pathology, and hair texture and skin tone satisfaction. Results provided weak to moderate correlations for most hypotheses tested. Eating disorders risk showed significant relationships with neuroticism, acculturation, and medium to dark skin tone among these black women.
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttps://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/6285
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State University
dc.subjectClinical psychology
dc.subjectBlack studies
dc.thesis.degreelevelmasters
dc.titleEating Disorder Risks and Personality Variables Among Black Women

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