Supplemental Material for Understanding Disordered Eating in Black Adolescents: Effects of Gender Identity, Racial Identity, and Perceived Puberty

Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to Asian-American subjects, they make more patient choices. When we make racial identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender identity salient has no effect on intertemporal or risk choices. (JEL D81, J15, J16, Z13)

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Racial Identity Buffers African American Women From Body Image Problems and Disordered Eating

Psychology of Women Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0361684312474799 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 337-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Laurel B. Watson ◽

Julie R. Ancis ◽

D. Nicholas White ◽

Negar Nazari

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

African American ◽

Racial Identity ◽

African American Women ◽

Disordered Eating ◽

American Women ◽

Image Problems

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Moderation Effects of Ethnic-Racial Identity on Disordered Eating and Ethnicity Among Asian and Caucasian Americans

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.594391 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Katrina T. Obleada ◽

Brooke L. Bennett

Keyword(s):

Racial Identity ◽

Disordered Eating ◽

Ethnic Identification ◽

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire ◽

Eating Disorder Examination ◽

Undergraduate Women ◽

Caucasian Americans ◽

Eating Concerns ◽

Underlying Mechanisms ◽

The Relationship

Background: The current study was designed to examine whether ethnic-racial identity (ERI) moderated the relationship between disordered eating and primary ethnic identification.Methods: Three hundred and ninety-eight undergraduate women (Mage = 19.95, SD = 3.09) were recruited from a large university in Hawai‘i. Participants completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), the ERI measure, and reported their primary ethnicity as an index of ethnicity.Results: There was a significant correlation between eating concerns and centrality, r(357) = 0.127, p < 0.05. Moderation analyses indicated that only ERI centrality moderated the predictive effect of ethnicity on the importance of eating concerns, b = 0.05, t(347) = 2.37, p = 0.018.Conclusions: The results suggest that the relationship between self-reported primary ethnicity and EDEQ scores is greater when ethnicity is more central to the individual's identity or when the in-group affect is important to an individual. Findings underscore the need for further research on the underlying mechanisms that account for the differing ways that ERI may affect eating concerns.

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A Moderated Mediation Model: Racial Discrimination, Coping Strategies, and Racial Identity Among Black Adolescents

Child Development ◽

10.1111/cdev.12122 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 85 (3) ◽

pp. 882-890 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Eleanor K. Seaton ◽

Rachel Upton ◽

Adrianne Gilbert ◽

Vanessa Volpe

Keyword(s):

Racial Identity ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Racial Discrimination ◽

Black Adolescents ◽

Moderated Mediation ◽

Mediation Model ◽

Moderated Mediation Model

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Dual cues: Women of color anticipate both gender and racial bias in the face of a single identity cue

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ◽

10.1177/1368430220942844 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 136843022094284

Author(s):

Kimberly E. Chaney ◽

Diana T. Sanchez ◽

Jessica D. Remedios

Keyword(s):

Racial Identity ◽

Gender Identity ◽

Women Of Color ◽

White Women ◽

Racial Bias ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Latina Women ◽

Identity Threat ◽

Total N ◽

Identity Safety

Integrating past research on women of color, stigma transfers, and generalized prejudice, the present research examined the extent to which threats and safety cues to one identity dimension (e.g., gender) results in threat or safety to women of color’s other stigmatized identity dimension (e.g., race). Across three experimental studies (Total N = 638), the present research found support for a dual cue hypothesis, such that Black and Latina women anticipated gender bias from a racial identity threat (Studies 1 and 2) and anticipated racial bias from a gender identity threat (Study 2) resulting in greater overall anticipated bias compared to White women (Study 3). Moreover, Black and Latina women anticipated racial identity safety from a gender identity safety cue (Study 3) supporting a dual safety hypothesis. These studies add to work on double jeopardy by extending a dual threat framework to anticipation of discrimination and highlighting the transferability of threat and safety cues for women of color.

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