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Women's dissatisfaction with body image greater in more affluent neighborhoods.
2002 MAR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The more affluent the area in which she lives, the more dissatisfied a woman is likely to be with her body image, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The researchers carried out a random telephone survey of 895 women ages 25 to 56. The women lived in 52 neighborhoods in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec in Canada. The survey was designed to cover differing social and income brackets. National census data were then used to track the overall affluence of each of the areas.
The findings showed that levels of dissatisfaction with body weight depended on how affluent an area a woman found herself living in, regardless of her own personal income (Neighbourhood level versus individual level correlates of women's body dissatisfaction: toward a multilevel understanding of the role of affluence, J Epidemiol Comm Health, 2002;56:193-99).
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