Does Feminine Gender Role Stress Moderate the Relationship Between Disordered Eating and Depression?
Publication Date
Summer 2021
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Amy Brausch (Director), Jenni Teeters, and Matthew Woodward
Degree Program
Department of Psychological Sciences
Degree Type
Master of Science
Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the moderating effect of feminine gender role stress on disordered eating behaviors and depression. It was hypothesized that feminine gender role stress would significantly moderate the relationship between disordered eating and depression, such that disordered eating behaviors would be more strongly associated with depression when FGRS total and subscale scores were high. These hypotheses were tested by surveying a sample of 334 university students (mean age = 20.54 years), all of whom were cisgender women. Participants completed self-report measures including the Eating Attitudes Test-26, Beck Depression Inventory, Feminine Gender Role Stress Scale, and Demographics. Results suggest that feminine gender role stress moderates the relationship between disordered eating and depression such that the association is stronger at low levels of feminine gender role stress.
Disciplines
Other Psychiatry and Psychology | Psychiatry and Psychology | Psychology
Recommended Citation
Nichols, Paige, "Does Feminine Gender Role Stress Moderate the Relationship Between Disordered Eating and Depression?" (2021). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 3533.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3533