Mumford and Whitehouse (1988)
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- Mumford and Whitehouse (1988)
- Aim: Very few cases of anorexia or bulimia were reported in non-whites
- See if eating disorders do occur fewer in British Asian girls than their white counter parts
- Procedure
- Girls aged 14-16 from 4 different schools
- Total sample size was 559 = 204 Asians and 355 whites
- Girls were given an eating attitudes test and a body shape questionnaire
- People who scored high enough on either of the tests were taken into interviews
- where their history was collected and examined too look for eating disorders.
- Researchers discussed and 22 Asian girls and 32 white grils were interviewed.
- Girls aged 14-16 from 4 different schools
- Results
- Significant difference between the groups ain the eating attitudes test
- no difference between the body shape questionnaire.
- Of those who went to the interviews 7 Asian girls and 2 whites were diagnosed with bulimia
- On Asian and no whites diagnosed with anorexia.
- Significant difference between the groups ain the eating attitudes test
- Evaluation
- Strenghts
- Sample was large so can be generalized to other schoolgirls.
- Reliability was high as multiple researchers came to a joint decision - inter relater reliability
- Weaknesses
- Age range was very limited so isn't possible to say whether the same results would be found for older women and younger girls.
- Girls may have felt like they had to be careful how they answered.
- The DSM was used to diagnose. There is evidence to suggest that the DSM was not reliable for children.
- Strenghts
- Aim: Very few cases of anorexia or bulimia were reported in non-whites
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