Psychosocial Impact: Eating Disorders

Question 1

What is anoerxia Nervosa?

Answer 1

• The restriction of food because of the intense fear of gaining weight

Question 2

What are the psychosocial impacts of Anerexia Nervosa?

Answer 2

• Distrubed and obsessive body image
• Maladaptive behaviours to avoid weight gain

Question 3

What is Bulimia Nervosa?

Answer 3

• Binge eating episodes for short periods of time
• The lack of control regarding eating
• ## Could be followed purging

Question 4

What is purging?

Answer 4

• To compensate binge eating, adolescents will take laxatives, diet pills, excesive exercise, or induced vomitting
• Has to occur once a week for 3 months

Question 5

What are the psychosocial impacts of Bulima Nervosa?

Answer 5

• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Distrubed and obsessive over body image
• Extreme fullness
• Depression, shame guilt
• Eating alone

Question 6

What is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder?

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

Which gender does Eating disorders take prevalance?

Answer 7

• Girls are at higher risk of developing eating disorders

Question 8

What is the least common eating disorder?

Answer 8

Anerexia Nervosa

Question 9

Why does awareness in body image lead to the emergence of eating disorders in adolescence?

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

Is menarche associated with eating disorders?

Answer 10

• no <3
• but i find that to be bs but whatever

Question 11

Why does self-esteem increase the risk of eating disorders?

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

How could schemas and cognition lead to the emergence in adolescents? What is cognitive distortion?

Answer 12

• Distorted schemas and cognitions leads to the negative beliefs about uncontrollable thoughts

Question 13

Is there a positive to cognitive distortion?

Answer 13

• Positive beliefs about worry –> worrying is good to help with problems

Question 14

What is the tripartite influence model? What disordered eating is this related to?

Answer 14

• 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

Question 15

Tripartite Influence model

Females with more body dissatisfaction are more likely to?

Answer 15

• comsume media, especially fashion magazines
• Engage in upward social comparisons
• Activate self-ideal discrepancies
• Activation of weight-shape related self-deal discrepancies

Question 16

Do sociocultural factors affect body/self image?

Answer 16

yes. Different cultures and social pressures determine which and how body image is viewed

Question 17

What is the dual pathway model? what disordered eating is related to this?

Answer 17

• This models describes the internalization of the thin ideal, social comparison, and the thin-ideal schema
• Bulimia Nervosa

Question 18

How does the Dual-Pathway model work in sequence?

Answer 18

Pressure to be thin - Thin ideal internalization –> Body dissastisfaction –> Dieting - Negative affect –> Bulmic symptoms

Question 19

What evidence is shown to express how media is related to disordered eating?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

WHat cross sectional studies show the relation between media and disordered eating?

Answer 20

• More time on media in turn makes it more likely to internalize the thin ideal

Question 21

What longitudinal studies express the relation between media and disordered eating?

Answer 21

• Early exposure to thinness/thin ideal in turn increases issues with body image (negatively)

Question 22

What sociocultural influences do families bring to disordered eating?

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

What sociocultural influences do peers bring to disordered eating?

Answer 23

• “fat talk”
• Similar behaviour (purging)
• Importance friends weight
• peer influence
• teasing

Question 24

What Gender differences does disordered eating bring to boys?

Answer 24

• Less prevalent than girls
• 40% of individuals with BED (higher in boys than girls)
• atheltics