Michelle L Granner1, David R Black, Doris A Abood. 1. Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of South Carolina, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia 29208, USA. mgran1072@aol.com
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine levels of cigarette and alcohol use relative to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in 206 black and white college women. METHOD: Anonymous, paper-and-pencil, self-report questionnaires were administered. RESULTS: Frequency of both cigarette and alcohol use were significantly and linearly related to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. Regression analyses indicated that negative-affect reduction motivations for use of these substances were more strongly related to eating-disorder attitudes than were levels of use. CONCLUSIONS: Cigarette and alcohol use, independent of race and other demographic variables, increased along a continuum with eating-disorder attitudes.
OBJECTIVE: To examine levels of cigarette and alcohol use relative to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in 206 black and white college women. METHOD: Anonymous, paper-and-pencil, self-report questionnaires were administered. RESULTS: Frequency of both cigarette and alcohol use were significantly and linearly related to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. Regression analyses indicated that negative-affect reduction motivations for use of these substances were more strongly related to eating-disorder attitudes than were levels of use. CONCLUSIONS: Cigarette and alcohol use, independent of race and other demographic variables, increased along a continuum with eating-disorder attitudes.
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