Eating Disorders: A Case Study

If any of behavioral questions are selected, this adds additional evidence as to the presence of weight-controlling behaviors. Accordingly, if Alicia has a BMI that falls into the underweight category according to this test, scored 20 or more, and selected at least

The results of this study suggest that the girls hold more of a negative body evaluation when they thought of their body as a form compared to when they thought of their body as a function. They were also more positive about their bodies when they made the shift to the instrumental lens. However, this study was limited by the small sample size as well as the clinical population of girls. It needs to be broadened to include clinical and non-clinical populations of girls as well as boys.

It was not a very easy thing to do. I must have told myself to quit about a million times. I only worked hard and gave it my all for two weeks.

There is a stigma against people who have eating disorders. If they eat too much, they have no self control. If they eat too little, they are neurotic and controlling. The stigma of being labelled with the words “Eating-Disorder” has silenced an uncountable number of people who need help but have been able to convince themselves that it’s “Not that bad.”

The psychographic characteristics associated with eating behaviors part of the survey was designed in three areas which were body image attributes, psychological characteristics, and sociocultural environment. The body image attributes was examined by the EDE-Q and its measure of feelings about body weight. This EDE-Q addressed emotions and feelings college students felt toward their body image (Quick & Byrd-Bredbenner, 2013,

Eating disorders have become a major social problem in America, especially for woman. Our society pushes a fantasy of the idealized body through advertising, magazines, television, and social networks. It has become the cultural norm for women to be materialized out of the delusional thought process centered on the perfect body. From a very young age, women are given the message that in order to be happy and pretty, they must look like a Barbie doll. Women need to become aware that society’s ideal body image is not feasible. Your body is merely a vessel that contains the beautiful mind and soul that makes who you are. Our society has created unattainable standards of perfection in body image, and it is causing the rate of eating disorders to keep increasing. Over time, I have learned the most important aspect in life: perfection does not exist.

The Eating Disorder Inventory was developed in 1983 by David M. Garner, Marion P. Olmstead, and Janet Polivy but was officially published in 1984. The original Eating Disorder Inventory assessment was created for the sole purpose of evaluating the “psychological and behavioral traits common in anorexia nervosa and bulimia” (Garner, Olmstead, & Polivy, p.15, 1983). The researchers wanted to develop yet another instrument aimed at eating disorders because the previous instruments were only used for inpatient clients or intended for the behavioral aspects of anorexia nervosa in particular. The researchers felt that bulimia was not being accounted for in previous assessments and that the depth of these disorders was much more complex than the previous assessments were exploring. They felt that they needed to develop an instrument to measure various other traits in order to properly treat individuals with eating disorders.

Food has become one of the main topics that concerns people the most. Due to the concern in food many have become more aware of the way they look, being college students those with the highest population worrying about their body image. The purpose of the study is to determine if within that college population being affected, nursing students make a part of that population being more knowledgeable on the topic. Determining body mass index and possible modulation of anxious personality traits, existence of possible eating disorders will be identify. The study recruited 128 nursing students, they were given two test the STAI and EAT. The results of the study showed that there was a high percentage of nursing students that suffered from eating

Today in our society, there is a strong emphasis placed on body shape and appearance as seen in much of our media (Grigg et. al, 1996). Unfortunately, the ideal body image encouraged by society is often unhealthily thin and unrealistic and may therefore contribute to the prevalence of body distortion and ED , may times women will engage in disordered eating in hopes of attaining the false ideal. Even girls aged 5–8 years of age are already living in an appearance culture in which both peers and the media influence body image and dieting awareness ( Dohnt & Tiggermann, 2006). The vast majority of people with eating disorders in the United States are adolescents and young adult women. Eating disorders, in addition to causing various physical health problems, are associated with illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, anxiety, and especially OCD (Rubenstein et. al, 1992).

There is a commonly held view in the general population that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. However, eating disorders are a group of serious conditions in which a person is preoccupied with food and weight that they often cannot focus on anything else. Amongst all the eating disorder the main types are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, which are all psychological illnesses. The disorders vary between eating extremely small amounts of food, to not eating at all, or to severely overeating. Each of these eating disorders can cause serious physical and psychological problems, and at their most severe, can even be life-threatening (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

The Eating Inventory is intended to measure specific behaviors of eating. These include hunger, disinhibition, and cognitive restraint of eating (Haynes). This test was originally designed by Albert J. Stunkard and Samuel Messick to examine the factors of eating as a control of body weight (Haynes, 1998). It has instead proved to serve as an effective instrument in the assessment of weight deviation as a result of quitting smoking, or in obese, depressed, or bulimic patients (Haynes, 1998).

Among the many predicaments women face, dissatisfaction with one 's body is one most women would agree upon. An estimating 91% of women have been, or are currently unhappy with their bodies. In the early 1900’s, the ideal body image of a woman shifted from thick with muscle to a thin frame with almost no curves. Women began to exercise and diet to enhance the human body. The new ideal body image that was promoted in society began leading to excessive thinness and eating disorders affecting individuals today. One type of eating disorder that’s significantly influenced by society 's ideal body image for females is Anorexia Nervosa.

The National Eating Disorders Association says that the average women is 63,6kg and the average model is 53kg. Magazines and social media display what they think is the perfect weight, height, hair colour, etc. and so many people are unsatisfied with themselves when they compare their appearance with that of society’s. This often leads unsatisfied people to developing an eating disorder. Having an eating disorder is a serious medical problem. They most frequently develop during adolescence, but can occur earlier or in adulthood and is more common amongst females than males. It is more than just a problem with food, they use it to try gain control and ease tension and anxiety.

It has been proved that overweight college students take a bigger risk of binge-eating disorder (Herbozo, Schaefer, & Thompson, 2015). According to Napolitano and Himes (2011), the incidence of serious binge eating symptoms has been assessed at 44% and binge-eating disorder has been assessed at 8.4% among college students. They are considered as a more vulnerable community to binge-eating disorder due to the average age of binge-eating occurrence is between 18 and 25 (Stice, Killen, Hayward, & Taylor, 1998). Besides, college students have bigger risk to gain weight (Lloyd-Richardson, Bailey, Fava, Wing, & Network, 2009), which could cause obesity.

Throughout the twenty-first century there has been a social demand to be thin. Many famous men and women in the acting and modeling industry are expected to be skinny and are photoshopped in their pictures to make them look smaller than they are, which the everyday people see. “When you consider the average weight of a supermodel, the $70 billion dieting industry, or the 6 million to 11 million people who struggle with eating disorders, you come to one conclusion: America is virtually obsessed with thinness” (Wolchover). Our world is determined to be skinny and people become so obsessed, that they will start to see themselves as larger than they truly are and will take serious measures to accomplish their dream of being thin. This “thin fantasy” develops into eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Although anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are both eating disorders where the person has a misperception of his or her own body and relies on starving/fasting, purging, and excessive exercise to lose weight, these conditions do vary in the way they are defined, diagnosed, and the effects they have on the body.