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Download or read book The Relationship Between Level of Acculturation and Attitudes Toward Eating in Mexican American Females written by Linda Trew Ahlfield-Bruhn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will examine the relationship between acculturation and the attitudes toward eating disorders in Mexican American girls and young women in the state of New Mexico. this longitudinal repeated measures (2) study will span a 6-year period starting at age 12 (+/-1 year) and ending when the young women reach age 18. The test battery for this study will consist of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale (BAS) for Hispanics. Subjects will participate in testing at 2-year intervals. The female head-of-household, either the mother or guardian, will also accompany the young girls in the every-other-year testing. It is hypothesized that at each year of testing the gap between mother's and daughter's scores on the BAS will get wider, indicating the daughter's increased acculturation to Western cultural ideals.