Outline and Evaluate attitudes to eating behaviour

Cultural Differences
1. Ethnicity
  1. Striegel-moore et al - Found evidence of 'drive for thinness' among black girls
  2. Munford et al - Incident of bulimia greater amongst asian school girls
2. Social Class
  1. Dornbusch et al - Higher class females equals greater desire to eb thin and more likely to diet
  2. Story et al - Study on American Students, higher social class was related to greater satisfaction with weight and lower rates of weight control and behaviour (like vomiting)
Social Learning
1. Media Effects
  1. MacIntyre et al - Media has a major impact both on what people eat and attitudes to foods
2. Parental Modelling
  1. Meyer + Gast - Significant positive correlation on peer influence + disordered eating
  2. Birch + Fisher - Best predictors of daughter's eating behaviour is mother's dietary restrain
Mood and Eating
1. Comfort and eating
  1. Parker at al - Chocolate has antidepressant effect for some but is likely to prolong negative mood if repeated intake
  2. Garg et al - People who feel sad want to 'jolt themselves out of dumps' therefore are more likely to snack
2. Binge eating
  1. Studies support a drop in mood after eating
Gender Bias - Siever -Only studies made on women's attitudes to eating but homosexuality is a risk factor in development of disordered eating attitudes
Reductionist - Oversimplifies a complex process. Focuses on environment and ignores biological factors e.g evolutionary
Generalisation - Studies come from variety of groups. Some clinical other sub-clinical and non-clinical. Limits on degree to which we can generalise studies therefore
Rozin et al - Food functions differently in the minds and lives of people from different cultures

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