Psychological Explanations of Anorexia Nervosa
- Created by: Ciara Ryan
- Created on: 21-04-15 17:34
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2. What research study found a positive correlation between severity of AN and level of Perfectionism on the multi-dimensional Scale?
- Swift
- Halmi et al.
- Strober et al.
- Jones and Buckingham
3. Which study found that anorexics were finished a task very quickly even though they reported that they weren't impulsive?
- Halmi et al.
- Butler and Montgomery
- Strober et al.
- Jones and Buckingham
4. In Strober et al.'s study what were the results?
- Low levels of perfectionism with an average of 13% for girls and 5% for boys
- High levels of perfectionism with an average of 50% for girls and 73% for boys
- High levels of perfectionism with an average of 73% for girls and 50% for boys
- High levels of perfectionism with an average of 53% for girls and 70% for boys
5. 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
- No supportive research, lowering validity of the theory as you cannot be sure personality's effect on disorder is being measured
- Causal relationship can be established as its personality causes the disorder
- Personality is very subjective
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