Eating Behaviour Flashcards
Birch and fisher
Best prediction of daughters eating behaviour were mothers dietary restraint and their perception of the risk of the daughters beckoning overweight
Meyer and Gast
- 12 year olds
- positive correlation between peer influence and disordered eating
- ‘likeability’ most influential peer factor
MacIntyre et al
Media has a major impact on both
- what people eat
- and their attitudes to certain foods
Siever 94
Homosexual men at higher risk than heterosexual men for
- disordered eating
- body dissatisfaction
- higher levels of dieting
-attributed to gay subculture of lean, muscular body ideal
Powell and Khan 1995
Body dissatisfaction, eating disorders (AN/BN) more common in white women than black or Asian women
ball and Kenardy 2002
Acculturation affect
- 14000 women aged 18-23
- the longer time spent in Australia, the more similar the attitudes to those Australian born
Dornbusch et al
- 7000 American adolescents
- higher class = greater desire to be thin and more likely to be dieting than lower class individuals
Story et al
Higher social class linked with greater body satisfaction and lower rates of weight control behaviour
Ogden 2004
Consistent Correlation between parents and children in terms of snacking, eating motivations and body dissatisfaction
