Humanistic approaches to the understanding and treatment of anorexia nervosa

Dittmar, Helga; Bates, Brian

doi:10.1016/s0140-1971(87)80033-7

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“…Although women face various pressures, this trend is particularly striking when a person considers that mass media messages are the primary means by which sociocultural values and norms are reflected, reproduced, and communicated to the populace (Downing, Mohammadi, & Sreberny-Mohammadi, 1990). In this context, various researchers propose that thinness is an ideal to which society expects women to aspire; moreover, this view suggests that thinness is a means for women to actualize their sense of identity and personal control (Dittmar & Bates, 1987;Lawrence, 1987;Schwartz, Thompson, & Johnson, 1982).…”

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Teachers' and Education Majors' Ratings of Parent–Child Interactions as Child Abuse

Tribble¹,

Yanowitz²,

Monte³

2002

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foster and reward the scholarly efforts of undergraduate psychology students as well as to provide them with a valuable learning experience. The articles published in this journal represent primarily the work of the undergraduate student(s). Faculty supervisors, who deserve recognition, are identified by an asterisk next to their name or on a separate byline.Since the articles in this journal are primarily the work of undergraduate students, the reader should bear in mind that: (1) the studies are possibly less complex in design, scope, or sampling than professional publications and (2) the studies are not limited to significant findings. The basis for accepting papers for publication is the agreement among three professional reviewers that the project, hypothesis, and design are well researched and conceived for someone with an undergraduate level of competence and experience.

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Section: Irrelevant Picture 13mentioning

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Teachers' and Education Majors' Ratings of Parent–Child Interactions as Child Abuse

Tribble¹,

Yanowitz²,

Monte³

2002

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“…Thinness is not only an ideal women are expected to aspire to, but it is also alluringly portrayed as the pathway towards achieving a sense of identity and personal control women are often struggling to establish, particularly when very young (e.g. Dittmar and Bates, 1987;Lawrence, 1987;Schwartz and Markham, 1985).…”

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“…Chernin, 1986;Fallon et d., 1994;Lawrence, 1979Lawrence, , 1984, family-oriented models tend to see eating disorders as a way in which young women try to control their families, as well as their bodies, by counteracting the consequences of biological-hormonal changes starting in puberty (cf. Dittmar and Bates, 1987). Rezek and Leary (1991) demonstrated empirically that women with a high 'drive for thinness' used food intake restriction as a means for regaining a sense of personal control, after it had been threatened through an experimental manipulation.…”

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Women's Self-Reported Eating Behaviours and Their Responses to Food and Non-Food Television Advertisements

Dittmar

Blayney

1996

Eur. Eat. Disorders Rev.

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In order to stress the need for fuTther systematic research on the relationship between the media and eating disorders, the present study investigates young women's responses to diverse consumer advertisements. Female undergraduates with varying levels of self-reported eating problems (assessed by EAT) were shown different types of food and non-food advertisements, all of which featured a slim, attractive female model. They responded after each advert in terms of (1) the emotions they experienced subjectively and (2) attributions of personal control made to the advert charucter. In support of the first set of hypotheses advanced, a 2 (highllow degree of eating problems) x 8 (advertisement) ANOVA showed that, compared to women with few eating problems, those with a high level of eating problems reported significantly more negative emotions after food advertisements than non-food advertisements. An ANOVA of the same format for control attributions yielded only a statistical tendency, thus providing merely tentutive support for the second set of hypotheses that level of eating problems would affect control attributions to models advertising food. Theoretical and therapeutic implications are discussed of the proposition that geder-specific media messages -such as adverts which promote both a thin body ideal and food consumption-may play some role in increasing women's vulmability to developing clinical eating disorders because they can have an w a v a t i n g effect on the substantial number of women who already have a problematic relationship with food and weight.

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Anorexia Nervosa: Displacing Universalities and Replacing Gender

Malson¹

1992

The Psychology of Women’s Health and Health Care

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Humanistic approaches to the understanding and treatment of anorexia nervosa

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Teachers' and Education Majors' Ratings of Parent–Child Interactions as Child Abuse

Teachers' and Education Majors' Ratings of Parent–Child Interactions as Child Abuse

Women's Self-Reported Eating Behaviours and Their Responses to Food and Non-Food Television Advertisements

Anorexia Nervosa: Displacing Universalities and Replacing Gender

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