Psychosocial Impact: Eating Disorders Flashcards
What is anoerxia Nervosa?
- The restriction of food because of the intense fear of gaining weight
What are the psychosocial impacts of Anerexia Nervosa?
- Distrubed and obsessive body image
- Maladaptive behaviours to avoid weight gain
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
- Binge eating episodes for short periods of time
- The lack of control regarding eating
- ## Could be followed purging
What is purging?
- To compensate binge eating, adolescents will take laxatives, diet pills, excesive exercise, or induced vomitting
- Has to occur once a week for 3 months
What are the psychosocial impacts of Bulima Nervosa?
- Intense fear of gaining weight
- Distrubed and obsessive over body image
- Extreme fullness
- Depression, shame guilt
- Eating alone
What is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder?
- Concerns about adverse conesquences of eating which could be a fear of food, lack of apetite, etc
- Specific textures, fear of choking
- intense worry, anxiety and sadness
- Undernourished
Which gender does Eating disorders take prevalance?
- Girls are at higher risk of developing eating disorders
What is the least common eating disorder?
Anerexia Nervosa
Why does awareness in body image lead to the emergence of eating disorders in adolescence?
- Increased awareness of our bodies and how it changes leads to body image dissatisfaction
- During adolescence there is a rapid increase of body fat which leads to increased concern about weight
Is menarche associated with eating disorders?
- no <3
- but i find that to be bs but whatever
Why does self-esteem increase the risk of eating disorders?
- With the development of self-esteem, an adolescent becomes more self aware. The evaluation of oneself in turn can lead to dissatisfaction of their body
How could schemas and cognition lead to the emergence in adolescents? What is cognitive distortion?
- Distorted schemas and cognitions leads to the negative beliefs about uncontrollable thoughts
Is there a positive to cognitive distortion?
- Positive beliefs about worry –> worrying is good to help with problems
What is the tripartite influence model? What disordered eating is this related to?
- Three primary core sources of influence-parents, peers and media-contribute to the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.
- The internalization of the “thin ideal”
- Adolescents see themselves as inferior to others
- Anerexia Nervosa
Tripartite Influence model
Females with more body dissatisfaction are more likely to?
- comsume media, especially fashion magazines
- Engage in upward social comparisons
- Activate self-ideal discrepancies
- Activation of weight-shape related self-deal discrepancies
Do sociocultural factors affect body/self image?
yes. Different cultures and social pressures determine which and how body image is viewed
What is the dual pathway model? what disordered eating is related to this?
- This models describes the internalization of the thin ideal, social comparison, and the thin-ideal schema
- Bulimia Nervosa
How does the Dual-Pathway model work in sequence?
Pressure to be thin - Thin ideal internalization –> Body dissastisfaction –> Dieting - Negative affect –> Bulmic symptoms
What evidence is shown to express how media is related to disordered eating?
Experimental studes show magazines or tv ads containing thin-ideal body images or neutral (control)
- There is a direct affect, girls come out with worse depression and body dissatisfaction
- Decreases mood and increases body dissatisfaction
WHat cross sectional studies show the relation between media and disordered eating?
- More time on media in turn makes it more likely to internalize the thin ideal
What longitudinal studies express the relation between media and disordered eating?
- Early exposure to thinness/thin ideal in turn increases issues with body image (negatively)
What sociocultural influences do families bring to disordered eating?
- Parental attitudes towards eating and thinness
- Unrealistic parental expectations
- Controlling parents
- Lack of parental monitioring
- Victims of Sexual & physical abuse
- How much the parents (especially the mother) engage in the thin ideal
What sociocultural influences do peers bring to disordered eating?
- “fat talk”
- Similar behaviour (purging)
- Importance friends weight
- peer influence
- teasing
What Gender differences does disordered eating bring to boys?
- Less prevalent than girls
- 40% of individuals with BED (higher in boys than girls)
- atheltics
