TABLE 1.

Percentage of Participants Who Endorsed That Approximately Half or More Than Half of American Men and Women Possess the Following Body Image- and Eating- Related Attitudes and Behaviors

	SSVW		SSVM
Item	Women (%)	Men (%)	Women (%)	Men (%)
Anxious about PAb	98	90	82	77
Binge eatf	36	33	16	24
Conscious about weightb	96	99	59	54
Consider taking steroidsm	5	5	82	69
Critical of other men’s PAm	78	86	46	45
Critical of other women’s PAf	92	93	94	96
Desire larger breasts/pecksb	83	83	80	86
Driven to be muscularm	23	13	97	95
Fatb	61	49	63	66
Fearful of agingb	92	85	76	68
Fearful of hair lossm	36	35	95	68
Restrictive with fat intakeb	84	86	31	30
Restrictive with caloriesf	83	84	34	30
Worried about cellulitef	90	83	9	13
Worried about love handlesb	83	85	55	45

Note. SSVW = Strength of Stereotypic Views of Women- Eating and Body Image Disturbance. SSVM = Strength of Stereotypic Views of Men—Eating and Body Image Disturbance. PA = Physical Appearance.

^b= calculated in both the SSVM and SSVW totals.

^f= calculated in SSVW total.

^m= calculated in SSVM total.