Beyond Age, <scp>BMI</scp>, Gender Identity, and Gender Minority Stress, Weight Bias Internalization Is Uniquely Associated With More Eating and Body Image Disturbances and Poor Physical and Mental Health in Chinese Gender‐Diverse Adults
While replication with longitudinal and experimental designs is needed to speak to the temporal dynamics and causality, our findings identify WBI as a unique, meaningful correlate of eating and body image disturbances in Chinese gender-diverse adults.
Authors
- Wesley R. Barnhart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-5225)
- Shijia Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2274-6119)
- Hongjian Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-9499)
- Jinbo He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2785-9371)
- Yueyang Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8347-9849)
- Christina M Gaggiano
- Yijing Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2123-5185)
- Zexuan Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6359-6002)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Bowling Green State University (US)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CN)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Eating Disorders
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24278
- Citations
- 15
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.59
Funders
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality