PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dieting, Binge Eating, Underweight
11 Apr 2013
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Person with major depressive disorder has frequent episodes of hopelessness and low self esteem. Women are more likely to experience depression. Around the time of puberty, females begin to reporting more depression symptoms than male. Characteristics of depression: emotional symptoms, cognitive symptoms, physical symptoms, behavioral symptoms. Women who are depressed are especially likely to have low self esteem, traditional feminine gender typing and little sense of control over their own lives. They contemplate on the possible causes and consequences of their emotions, called ruminative style of response. Culture of thinness: tendency where females think they are overweight even if they are appropriate weight. Objectified body consciousness is when a female tends to view herself as an object that can be looked at and judged by other people. Females more likely than males to view their bodies as objects and to be dissatisfied with their bodies. White women were somewhat more dissatisfied with their bodies than black women.
