Becker

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

They wanted to see if people who were exposed to western media were influences in their eating behaviours

Question 2

What was the sample in Becker?

Answer 2

63 & 65 17 year old girls from the island of Fiji

Question 3

What design is Becker’s study

Answer 3

Independent measures

Question 4

What years did the study take place in?

Answer 4

95 & 98

Question 5

Why did they wait 3 years between legs of their study?

Answer 5

To see the effects before and after TV exposure

Question 6

What measures were done on the girls?

Answer 6

EAT-26, BMI, questions about TV ownership

Question 7

What was involved in the EAT-26 questionnaire?

Answer 7

26 questions including short answer and long answer qualitative data

Question 8

What was considered a high score on EAT-26

Answer 8

20

Question 9

What happened to the girls who scored highly on EAT-26?

Answer 9

They were given semi-structured interviews about things like self-induced vomitting

Question 10

What were the results between EAT-26 scores between the two years?

Answer 10

Those scoring highly (over 20) increased from 12.7% to 29.2%

Question 11

What happened to rates of self-induced vomitting?

Answer 11

They increased from 0% to 11.3%

Question 12

What result did we see about those with a TV in 1998?

Answer 12

3 times as likely to have a score over 20

Question 13

What % felt ‘too big’ or ‘too fat’?

Answer 13

74%

Question 14

What % felt TV had influenced a change in body shape in themselves or a friend?

Answer 14

77%

Question 15

What are weaknesses with the sample of Becker?

Answer 15

It is Ethnocentic and Gynocentric as it is all girls from Fiji

Question 16

Is this study reliable?

Answer 16

Yes- because the procedure and questionnaire is largely standardised so you could repeat it with the same stimulus etc

Question 17

Becker is high or low in ecological validity?

Answer 17

High in ecological validity because their exposure to TV and their lives were in the real world so this is like real life

Question 18

What is a problem using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews?

Answer 18

Social desirability/Demand Characteristics as they might lie about their resposnes on such a sensitive topic/guess the purpose

Question 19

Why is this study ethical?

Answer 19

The TV exposure is naturally occurring and therefore the researchers are not responsible, It got consent both from the teens and their parents

Question 20

What is a problem with the validity of Becker’s study?

Answer 20

There are other EVs like consumerism that might have interfered not just TV

Question 21

What is an issue with semistructured interviews in Becker?

Answer 21

The semi-structured interviews make the study less reliable as different girls could get asked different questions

Question 22

What is an issue with the design of Becker?

Answer 22

This is an independent measures design so there could be differences between the groups of girls which could influence the results about eating behaviour