Purpose: The purpose of this study is to verify the relationship between sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, appearance stress and eating disorders. Method: Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 revised which was translate...
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to verify the relationship between sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, appearance stress and eating disorders. Method: Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 revised which was translated to Korean measured sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and appearance stress measurement examined appearance stress. Korean Version of Eating Attitude Test-26 was used to measure eating disorders. 120 university students in a city took surveys from September 20 to October 8, 2019. Of the 120 questionnaires, 4 has insincere or incomplete responses and 116 questionnaires resulted in data. The questionnaires were investigated using statistical process of t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficients using SPSS/Win 25.0 software package. Results: The average of KEAT-26 scores was 7.45 and the prevalence of eating disorders was 6.89% in the study. In eating disorders, there were significant differences according to subjective body image and diet experience. Eating disorders were positively correlated to sociocultural attitudes towards appearance (r=.21, p=.018) and appearance stress (r=.23, p=.006). Conclusion: This study verified the relationship between sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, appearance stress and eating disorders of university students, and expected to be supporting documents to develop programs for helping university students with eating disorders.