Psychological Explanations of Anorexia Nervosa

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What research study found a positive correlation between severity of AN and level of Perfectionism on the multi-dimensional Scale?
Halmi et al.
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What's an disadvantage of Bruch's psychodynamic theory?
Age bias so it lowers population validity and cannot be generalised to older sufferers, making it harder to treat them
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In Strober et al.'s study what were the results?
High levels of perfectionism with an average of 73% for girls and 50% for boys
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Jones and Buckingham found what?
Those with low self esteem are more likely to be affected by media influences
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What study found that homosexuality was a risk factor of body issues?
Siever
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What study found that when tv was introduced to Fiji, teenage girls developed a desire to lose weight?
Becker et al.
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Petkova's study found what?
Media influence were one of the main cause for developing a fear of putting on weight?
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What study found that instructional interventions before media exposure preventing media's influence?
Yamamiya et al.
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Evaluative point of personality being the cause of AN
No causal relationship can be established as its unknown whether which cause the other or whether there is any cause and effect relationship
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What does Halmi et al's research suggest about what causes AN?
Its caused by a genetic vulnerability of perfectionism that runs in families
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Which study found that anorexics were finished a task very quickly even though they reported that they weren't impulsive?
Butler and Montgomery
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