Objective. To investigate media and cultural influences in eating disorder development in African-American adolescent females. Method. Fifty-seven participants were recruited through churches and community organizations to complete a questionnaire. Results. Mainstream sociocultural identification was associated with more eating disorder behavior in African-American females; cultural ethnic iden...

This paper offers the first detailed exploration of key functions and meanings battle jackets—sleeveless denim jackets customized with band patches—for heavy metal fans. Drawing upon a dataset 50 collected from Instagram Reddit, coupled evidence questionnaires comment threads, it identifies three aspects of battle (sense community, pursuit selfhood, codes civility/authenticity) that turn into ...

Previous research suggests that social identity influences public attitudes about the European Union, but little is known role of for perceived legitimacy EU. This article explores relation between different forms identification (national, EU, dual) and EU perceptions, moderation this relationship by experienced threat to national power sociocultural...

OBJECTIVE: To discuss cognitive and sociocultural learning theory literature related to athletic training instructional and evaluation strategies while providing support for the application of these practices in the didactic and clinical components of athletic training education programs. DATA SOURCES: We searched Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and Education Abstracts from 1975...

Socioculturalists are divided on two of the foundational theoretical claims of the paradigm: a process ontology of the social world, and the inseparability of the individual and the group. A process ontology holds that only processes are real; entities, structures, or patterns are ephemeral and do not really exist. Inseparability is the claim that the individual and the social cannot be methodo...

Internalized racism (IR) is sometimes conceptualized as a form of racism, psychological response to experiencing and/or an external sociocultural process. However, while growing body work shows that IR associated with adverse health among racial minorities, this limited in explaining association. I present integrated framework using the Stigma-induced Identity Threat Model and Minority Stress T...

This paper reviews literature between 1974 and 2007 that addresses the impact of sociocultural factors on reported patterns of eating, physical activity (activity) and body size of Tongans and indigenous Fijians (Fijians) in their countries of origin. There have been changes in diet (more imported and fewer traditional foods), activity (reduced, especially in urban settings), residence (rural-u...

This study examined the relationship between attachment style, mother tongue (L1) and dominant language (DL) proficiency, sociocultural identification with culture of origin, life satisfaction amongst second-generation third-generation South Asian immigrants in Hong Kong. Participants included 69 women 28 men who were permanent residents ethnicity, had grown up The results identified significan...