Title from PDF of title page viewed December 21, 2018Dissertation advisor: Laurel B. WatsonVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 148-186)Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018Using an objectification theory lens, the purpose of this study was to better understand
religious/spiritual coping and acculturative stress as moderators in the relationship among sexual
objectification, internalization of sociocultural standards of beauty, and disordered eating with a
sample of 399 Latinx women. At the bivariate level, results suggested that experiences of sexual
objectification were related to more internalization, acculturative stress, negative religious
coping, and disordered eating. When examining internalization as a dependent variable, results
suggested that, when sexual objectification, acculturation, acculturative stress, enculturation,
negative religious coping, and positive religious coping were examined concurrently,
acculturative stress and negative religious coping positively predicted internalization; and
enculturation significantly negatively predicted internalization. When examining disordered
eating as a dependent variable, results suggested that when sexual objectification, internalization,
acculturation, acculturative stress, enculturation, negative religious coping, and positive religious
coping were examined concurrently, only sexual objectification, internalization, and
acculturative stress positively predicted disordered eating; and enculturation negatively predicted
disordered eating. Moreover, post-hoc path analyses indicated that internalization predicted
disordered eating; both acculturative stress and enculturation directly predicted internalization
and disordered eating; and sexual objectification did not predict internalization. Strengths and
limitations as well as implications for future interventions and future research is discussed.A conceptual understanding of religious/spiritual coping and acculturative stress in the relationship among sexual objectification, internalization of sociocultural standards of beauty, and disordered eating in Latnix women -- Latin women's disordered eating: considering culturally relevant variables in the objectification theory framework -- References -- Footnotes -- Appendix A. Participant Consent -- Appendix B. List of Mental Health Services -- Appendix C. Demographic Questionnaire -- Appendix D. Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale -- Appendix E. Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-Internalization Subscale -- Appendix F. The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire -- Appendix G. Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II -- Appendix H. Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory -- Appendix I. Brief Measure of Religious Coping Styles -- Appendix J. Consentimiento del participante -- Appendix K. Lista de Servicios de Salud Mental -- Appendix L. Cuestionario Demogracfico -- Appendix M. Spanish Version of the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale -- Appendix N. Spanish Version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-Internalization Subscale -- Appendix O. Spanish Version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire -- Appendix P. Spanish Version of the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II -- Appendix Q. Spanish Version of the Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory -- Appendix R. Spanish Version of the Brief Measure of Religious Coping Style