Attitudes to food and eating behaviour
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- Attitudes to food and eating behaviour
- Social Learning
- Parental modeling - control the food bought in the house and what the child eats.
- Brown and Ogden - correlation between parents and children in terms of snack food intake and eating motivation and body dissatisfaction
- Meyer and Gast - supports idea that social learning plays important role - surveyed 10-12 yr B+G = correlation between peer influence and disordered eating. Most important factor being the likeability of peers.
- Brown and Ogden - correlation between parents and children in terms of snack food intake and eating motivation and body dissatisfaction
- Media effects - social learning is evident in tv and other media e.g magazines.
- MacIntyre et al - media has major impact on both what we eat and the attitudes we have to certain foods. Also that eating behaviours are limited by personal circumstance age, income.
- Much more than social learning - the media social learning explanation focuses on fashion models ect, However there are other explanations such as evolutionary. - which suggest our preference to fatty foods is a result of evolved adaptation in ancestors.
- MacIntyre et al - media has major impact on both what we eat and the attitudes we have to certain foods. Also that eating behaviours are limited by personal circumstance age, income.
- Parental modeling - control the food bought in the house and what the child eats.
- Cultural Influences
- Ethnicity - (Powell) Body dissatisfaction& eating disorders are more common in white women that black or Asian women.
- Ball and Kennerdy - 14000+ women 18-24 yr old. + All ethnic groups, longer spent in Australia, the more there eating behaviours were similar to those women born in Australia.
- Mumford et al - incidence of bulimia was larger in Asian women than black or white women.
- Striegel-Moore et al = More evidence for drive for thinness in black girls than white girls.
- Ball and Kennerdy - 14000+ women 18-24 yr old. + All ethnic groups, longer spent in Australia, the more there eating behaviours were similar to those women born in Australia.
- Social Class - body dissatisfaction, dieting behaviour and eating disorders are more common in higher class individuals.
- Dornbusch et al - 7000 American teens + concluded higher class females had greater desire to be thin than lower class and were more likely to diet to achieve this.
- Story et al - Found in american students, higher class were happier with weight and had less rates of weight control behaviours e.g vomiting.
- Dornbusch et al - 7000 American teens + concluded higher class females had greater desire to be thin than lower class and were more likely to diet to achieve this.
- Ethnicity - (Powell) Body dissatisfaction& eating disorders are more common in white women that black or Asian women.
- Mood and Eating Behaviours
- Binge eating and comfort eating - Individuals with Bulimia Nervosa complain of anxiety before a binge.
- Davis et al - Bulimic individuals had more of a negative mood one hour before a binge than one hour before a normal meal.
- Garg et al - Found that when watching sad/upbeat fil participants watching the sad film consumed 36% more popcorn than those watching the upbeat film. Upbeat film ate more grapes to extend happy feeling. Sad film ate more nice tasting foods (popcorn) to jolt them into a happy mood.
- Davis et al - Bulimic individuals had more of a negative mood one hour before a binge than one hour before a normal meal.
- Binge eating and comfort eating - Individuals with Bulimia Nervosa complain of anxiety before a binge.
- IDA
- Gender Bias - Most studies just concern womens' attitudes to eating behaviour. However studies in men have shown homosexuality to be a risk factor in developing disordered eating (Siever)
- Social Learning
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