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This study examined the prevalence of disordered eating attitudes in a Hungarian adult community sample and tested an integrated model of body image disturbance and media-transmitted sociocultural pressures as statistical predictors, including formal tests of mediation. Methods: Hungarian adults (N = 675; 70.8% female; aged 16\u201381 years, M = 44.09) completed the Eating Attitudes Test\u201326 (EAT-26), the Body Attitude Test (BAT), and the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire\u20133 (SATAQ-3) in an online survey; body mass index (BMI) was calculated from self-reported height and weight. All instruments demonstrated good to excellent internal consistency in the present sample (Cronbach\u2019s \u03b1 = 0.84\u20130.93). Results: One in five participants (20.7%) scored at or above the EAT-26 clinical cut-off, with elevated rates at both extremes of the BMI spectrum (underweight: 30.0%; obese: 28.4%). Women scored higher than men on the EAT-26 (d = \u22120.59), BAT (d = \u22120.80), and three SATAQ-3 subscales; no gender difference emerged for athletic-ideal internalisation (d = \u22120.02), consistent with a cross-gender athletic ideal. The predictor set accounted for 40.5% of the variance in EAT-26 scores; BAT was the dominant predictor (\u03b2 = 0.61), while SATAQ-3 Athletic retained a direct path (\u03b2 = 0.08), and the remaining media-influence subscales lost significance once body image was controlled. A binary logistic regression using these predictors correctly classified 83.6% of participants (Nagelkerke R2 = 0.35), with BAT and athletic-ideal internalisation again the only significant predictors of clinical-range classification. Bootstrapped mediation analyses confirmed that the associations between sociocultural influences and disordered eating attitudes were largely mediated by body image disturbance; only athletic-ideal internalisation retained a significant direct association (partial mediation). Conclusions: Body image disturbance constitutes the proximal core of disordered eating attitudes, whereas internalisation of the athletic ideal shows a small independent association, with implications for screening and prevention across the adult lifespan.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu18152506","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,3]],"date-time":"2026-08-03T06:17:40Z","timestamp":1785737860000},"page":"2506","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Disordered Eating Attitudes in Hungarian Adults: Body Image, Sociocultural Media Pressures, and the Cross-Gender Athletic Ideal"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0297-8777","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lina","family":"Efthyvoulou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, 8042 Paphos, Cyprus"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Teodora","family":"Dergez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Health Sciences, University of P\u00e9cs, 7622 P\u00e9cs, Hungary"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5844-9906","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Koushiou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9936-7229","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marios","family":"Argyrides","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, 8042 Paphos, Cyprus"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"407","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(03)12378-1","article-title":"Eating disorders","volume":"361","author":"Fairburn","year":"2003","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"899","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30059-3","article-title":"Eating disorders","volume":"395","author":"Treasure","year":"2020","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"587","DOI":"10.1037\/a0016481","article-title":"An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents","volume":"118","author":"Stice","year":"2009","journal-title":"J. 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