Body Mass Index and Nationality (Argentine vs. Spanish) Moderate the Relationship Between Internalization of the Thin Ideal and Body Dissatisfaction: A Conditional Mediation Model.

It is believed that Women's exposure to Western sociocultural pressures to attain a "thin-ideal" results in the internalization of a desire to be thin that consequently leads to body dissatisfaction (BD). It is also well documented that body mass index (BMI; kg/m) correlates with BD. We tested for the first time a conditional mediation model where thin-ideal predicted through of the thin ideal and the path from to was hypothesized to be moderated by and (Argentine vs.