PSY 2174 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Likert Scale, Simple Random Sample, Eating Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2174
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Introduction: an eating disorder is a type of mental health disorder that primarily focuses on extreme amounts of weight loss in order to attain an unhealthy ideal body image created by the individual. As has been proven by many studies on the subject, the diagnosis of eating disorders is most common amongst adolescent girls. It has been theorized and supported that puberty is one of the most critical risk periods for eating disorders (klump,6), which explains why adolescent girls are the most at risk for developing this disorder. Young girls can find it very difficult to adjust to the sudden changes in body appearance and hormones. As a result, they tend to focus a lot of their attention on their weight and parts of their body that they find unattractive. This leads to body dissatisfaction, which becomes hard to counteract. In addition to this, many girls begin to care about what males think of them.