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Abstract
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546 males and 973 females, ranging in age from 18 to 23 years (M = 19.79, SD = 1.354). Participants completed an online survey that included measures of faith community interaction and harmony, loneliness, body dissatisfaction, and sociocultural pressures on appearance. Hierarchical regressions found that faith community harmony and faith community interaction predicted loneliness and body dissatisfaction, while only faith community harmony predicted sociocultural pressures on appearance. The implications of these findings for college students are discussed.
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Taylor Danielle Akason
Taylor Danielle Akason ([email protected]) earned her M.A. in clinical psychology from the Teachers College, Columbia University and was an intern/volunteer research assistant at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders, New York Psychiatric Institute.
Cindy Miller-Perrin
Cindy Miller-Perrin ([email protected]) earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington State University and is currently distinguished professor of psychology at Pepperdine University. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.