Task 3 Flashcards
Body image investment
reflects the degree of cognitive and behavioural importance that people assign to their body and appearance
Body image evaluation
refers to people’s degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their body and appearance.
Anorexia Nervosa
Refusal to maintain the minimally normal weight for age and height
Anorexia nervosa symptoms
+Amenorrhea
+Denia of seriousness of condition
+weight checking
+heighest morality starving or suicide
+not all fear weight gain ( cultural reasons, Ramadan)
+coping mechanism for stress and need of control
+avoidance of exposure to ones weight
Bulimia nervosa
Repeated episodes of binge eating and the regular use of unapprpopriate methods to keep weight/ counteract food consumption
- Purging type- self induced vomiting
- Bonn purging type - use of fasting or excessive excercise
Bulimia symptoms
+overeat to cope with stresss
+overevaluation of body and shape
+binge eating ( 1-2 a week)
BID/ Body image disturbance
a core diagnostic feature & risk factor of eating disorders
BID can manifest as a disturbance of perception, cognition, affect, behavior or combination of all, Beliefs about ones body re overvalued.
Mechanisms of BID in/maintain anorexia
+Selective attention
+Attentioanal bias for weight and food related information
+excessive avoidance or checking
+Body size overestimation
Mechanisms of BiD in / maintain bulimia
+overevaluating weight and shape
+Body dissatisfaction
+Body image avoidance checking => Selective attention
Dual pathway theory
Reason for eating disorder: internalized ideal t be thin from family peers, media
1.pathway: Body dissatisfaction => Dieting
either => direct feeling of being deprived
diet failure => Binge “Now I might aswell eat a lot because I already fucked up”
or indirect negative effect=> feeling bad about diet failure, eating to distract oneself in form of binging
- Pathway: Body dissatisfaction => feeling bad => overeating
Interactive model of bulimic symptom development
perfectisonism as predisposition/ tendency
perfectisonism, body dissatisfaction, & self esteem interact in the development of bulimia
Predictors for eating disorder
Body dissatisfaction
Dieting
Weight talk
men & eating disorders
Men are more likely to be
+misdiagnosed
+not recognized
+ develop an eating disorder when occupation or interest related to body
+ when men diet it tends to purposely have a end while for women it is a social norm
Homosexual
more likely to develop eating disordder
more pressure to be thin and dissatisfied
more willing to seek treatment
Muscle dysmorphia
(reverse Anorexia) preoccupation with muscularity and a drive to gain eight without being fat
+ exessive exercise and eating / binging
+anabolica
+related to body dissatisfaction , perfectionism
