Western Studies of Family Influences on Eating Disorders

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1812-1821
Author(s):  
Si-Cong CAO ◽  
Shao-Jiang MIAO ◽  
Jun TONG
2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. WEBSTER ◽  
R. L. PALMER

Background. Childhood antecedents are often put forward as being of possible aetiological significance for both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Method. Comparisons were made of groups of women with eating disorders with groups of women with major depression or without current psychiatric disorder, using the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse interview (CECA).Results. Women with bulimia nervosa (or mixed bulimia and anorexia nervosa) tended to report more troubled childhood experiences than did women from the non-morbid comparison group. In this respect, they resembled those with major depression. In contrast, those with anorexia nervosa resembled the non-morbid women rather than the other psychiatric groups.Conclusions. Adversity in childhood as measured by the CECA may play a part in the causation of bulimia nervosa but not of anorexia nervosa. It remains possible that more specific or subtle family influences may be relevant.


Author(s):  
Laura Giron Uzunian ◽  
Tânia Higa Sakuma ◽  
Ana Cristina Gonçalves de Azevedo ◽  
Leanna Dutra ◽  
Rafaella Vidal ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTEating behavior is acquired from infancy through sensations and experiments that stimulate the child through touch, taste and smell, building the food preferences. Such preferences consist in sensations and meanings of physical, social, psychological and cultural representations. The way of eating is related to the adolescents’ body transformation, which can be observed by the food standards adopted by this population. Adolescents exposed to the media, society, peers and family influences may undergo changes in their eating behavior, turning it vulnerable in their dietary patterns. In some extreme situation, such changes can cause eating disorders, in which the most common are anorexia and nervous bulimia. The building of properly resilience can be a protective factor against the onset of eating disorders in adolescents.RESUMOO comportamento alimentar é formado desde a infância por meio de sensações e experimentos que são oferecidos à criança através do tato, sabor e odor, constituindo as preferências alimentares. Tais preferências vão construindo sensações e significados de representações físicas, sociais, psicológicas e culturais. A alimentação relaciona-se com as alterações corporais dos adolescentes, o que pode ser visto com os padrões alimentares adotados por essa população. O adolescente, exposto às influências da mídia, da sociedade, dos pares e da família, pode sofrer modificações no seu comportamento alimentar, tornando-o vulnerável a desenvolver mudança no padrão alimentar. Em uma situação extrema, tais mudanças favorecem o surgimento dos transtornos alimentares, sendo os mais conhecidos a anorexia e bulimia nervosa. Neste sentido, o desenvolvimento da resiliência de maneira adequada pode ser um fator de proteção contra a instalação de transtornos do comportamento alimentar no adolescente.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (15) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
KATE JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
Glenn Waller ◽  
Helen Cordery ◽  
Emma Corstorphine ◽  
Hendrik Hinrichsen ◽  
Rachel Lawson ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Elosua ◽  
Alicia López-Jáuregui

In this study the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 was adapted to Spanish and analyzed the internal psychometric properties of the test in a clinical sample of females with eating disorders. The results showed a high internal consistency of the scores as well as high temporal stability. The factor structure of the scale composites was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis. The results supported the existence of a second-order structure beyond the psychological composites. The second-order factor showed high correlation with the factor related to eating disorders. Overall, the Spanish version of the EDI-3 showed good psychometric qualities in terms of internal consistency, temporal stability and internal structure.


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolien Martijn ◽  
Jessica M. Alleva ◽  
Anita Jansen

Feelings of body dissatisfaction are common in Western society, especially in women and girls. More than innocent discontent, body dissatisfaction can have serious consequences such as depression and eating disorders. The current article discusses the nature of body dissatisfaction, how it develops and how it is currently being treated. We also discuss novel strategies to increase body satisfaction that work on the automatic system (e.g., by retraining attentional and conditioning processes), since recent research suggests that appearance-related information is processed automatically. We suggest that extant methods should be combined with these novel strategies, in order to optimally improve body dissatisfaction and to prevent its detrimental consequences.


1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1212-1213
Author(s):  
J. Scott Mizes
Keyword(s):  

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1223-1223
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson

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