PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Body Image, Bulimia Nervosa
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Causes: standards of beauty over time: over time, cultural ideal for women"s body size and shape has become considerably thinner, prevalence of eating disorders has risen as body ideal became thinner. Ideal used to be a bigger build: greater internalization of beauty standards, greater ed symptoms, bulimia has been more influenced by changing standards than anorexia, bulimia, culture, anorexia, control. Causes: family pressures: family conflict and rejection predict bulimia. In anorexia, perceive families as: close, conflict-less, with anorexia, families tend to be enmeshed, overly involved in one another"s lives, parenting that is: Intrusive: overly-controlling, child overly controls eating, some parents model, unhealthy eating, body image, others directly pressure children to be thin. Causes: control issues: struggle for control, taking pride in controlling, diet, weight, control gives sense of autonomy, those attempting to be overly compliant to, parents, perfectionism, societal rules, set unrealistically high standards, self-critical, demand flawlessness.
