Eating Behaviour - Attitudes Flashcards
What is SLT?
Vicarious learning through social models through ARRRM, placed within the social context of their lives
What influences attitudes?
Social learning and cultural influences
ARRRM?
Attention, retention, reproduction, reinforcement, motivation
Parental modelling researcher?
Brown and Ogden
Brown and Ogden?
Consistent correlations between parents and their children in snack food intake, motivations and body disatisfaction
Media researcher?
Macintyre et al.
Macintyre et al?
Media has an impact on attitudes and what people eat
Cultural influences include?
Ethnicity and social class
Powell and Khan?
Dissatisfaction and concerns and disorders more characteristic of white women than black or asian
Dissatisfaction and concerns and disorders more characteristic of white women than black or asian?
Powell and Khan
Dornbusch et al?
Higher class females had a greater desire to be thin and diet
Research on social class?
Dornbusch et al
Ball and Kenardy?
Acculturation effect in Australia
Acculturation effect?
Ball and Kenardy
Support for peer influence?
Meyer and gast
Meyer and gast?
Significant correlation between peer influence and disordered eating
Support for cultural differences?
Rozin et al
Rozin et al?
Substantial cultural differences, eg in France food is for pleasure not health
Contradictory evidence for attitudes?
Striegel Moore et al
Striegel Moore et al?
More evidence of a drive for thinness among black girls than white
Strengths of attitudes?
Supporting research
Weaknesses of attitudes?
Contradictory research
Gender bias
Reductionist
Methodologically weak
Gender bias in attitudes?
Siever
Siever?
Homosexuality is a risk factor for men due to gay subculture
Reductionist?
Attitudes are much more than social learning, eg evolved preferences
Example of evolved preferences?
Burnham and Phelan
Burnham and Phelan?
Preference for fatty foods comes from times of good scarcity in the EEA
Why is research on attitudes methodologically weak?
Studies come from a variety of groups: clinical, sub-clinical, temporary and non-clinical, etc.