Social Learning Theory Of Albert Bandura

Introduction
The psychological illness which is associated with abnormal eating habits that may be excessive or inadequate intake of food for an individual is known as eating disorder. This disorder is a serious illness which is characterized by the habit of eating leads to unhealthy body weight and body shape. It is found that eating disorder is a choice of lifestyle which is increasing in number throughout the world. Most of the cases women are generally affected by eating disorder where as the men are only 10% to 15% (DSM-5 American Psychiatric Association, 2013) of all the cases. The exact cause of eating disorder is not known though it is found that few medical conditions are linked with this disorder. This mental illness develops due …show more content…
The theory says that there is few learning process by which an individuals can learn: the Four processes are Attention, Retention; Reproduction; Motivation. The learning model can be related to eating disorder. Eating disorder is basically situational, a habit which an individual adopts. When a child is growing in a family and in the society he or she is learning each and every time from their each and every observation. If they see an abnormal food habit within their family where no one is worried about their body weight and body shape then that child will also develop the same kind of behaviour (Bachnrt-Melmer et. al.,2014) The child will start to eat excessive food which leads to increased body weight and abnormal body shape. Similarly if parents are not aware about their food habit then the children will develop a habit of not eating anything which will again develop a weight loss . So it is found that the eating disorder is a mental illness which an individual learns from family, social and environmental factors. All the victims who are affected by the eating disorder have learnt that behavior from some of those factors and develop it within …show more content…
In today’s world there are many children and adult also who are suffering from eating disorder which remain unknown to their parents (Pearson et al. 2012). The awareness should increase among the parents. With regard to family support, results suggest that adolescents who view communication with their families to be difficult as well as adolescents who perceive their parents to be providing low levels of school support were more likely to use unhealthy weight control behaviors (Vander Wal,