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Title: Flower boys and muscled men: comparing South Korean and American male body ideals using cultural domain analysis.
Authors: Monocello, Lawrence T., Dressler, William W.
Source: Anthropology & Medicine. Jun2020, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p176-191. 16p. 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 1 Graph.
Subjects: Body image, Culture, Koreans, Men's health, Psychology of men, Psychometrics, Ethnology research, Psychosocial factors
Geographic Terms: South Korea, United States
Abstract: Body image disturbance and eating disorders are rising all over the world. However, little is known about experiences of body image in men across cultural groups, and measurement tools often fail to account for the profound ways in which culture and gender can affect these data. An American cultural model of the ideal male body was compared with that of South Koreans using cultural domain analysis and residual agreement analysis. Cultural domain analysis gives researchers the ability to systematically study cultural models based on informants' emic understanding of phenomena; residual agreement analysis evaluates the patterns of agreement in disagreement with a larger cultural model. This study shows that Americans and South Koreans often overlap in their assessments of the desirability of male bodily features; however, they also strongly endorse many differing features, as well as similar features for different cultural reasons. For example, Americans endorse muscularity because it indexes physical prowess and health; South Koreans only sometimes endorse muscularity, mainly as an aesthetic choice. As a result, psychometric tools for measuring body dissatisfaction that are uncritically adopted for use in cross-cultural research may miss important information affecting the validity of findings and the efficacy of prevention campaigns and treatment plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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