Psychology Eating: Attitudes Eating And Behaviour

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Ogden (2003)

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Foods is part of a complex network of social meaning, where food choices are a form of comminication about the individiuals personality and cultural identity

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Dornbusch et al (1984)

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Individuals from a higher social class had a greater desire to be thin and were more likely to achieve this aim. This behaviour was more common amount teenage girls, showing gender bais.

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Story et al (1995)

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The higher the social class, the greater the body satisfaction and a negative correlation between weight controlling methods was found.

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Story evaluation

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Could be that higher social class leads to better food qualitiy, therefore individuals were already thin and had acheived desirable aims.
Furthermore, 7000 adolescent US individuals were used, creating results which cannot be generalised.
Social desirablity bais may also be an issue.

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Powell and Khan

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Belima and disordered eating was more common within whites than within black and Asiain ethinic groups.

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Mumford et al

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Belimia is higher within Asian girls that within white girls. The results were explained as a balance between the families culture and the white culture in which the girls were living, creating confliciting desires.

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Mumford evaluation

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Shows the complextiy of the nature of eating and how using ethinicity alone is a reductionistic view. Eating and nutrition is an extremly complex issue which cannot be explained using a single simple view.

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Rozin et al (1999)

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Cross cultural study which assessed eating attitudes in a number of different cultures. Men were more likely to show the cultural beliefs about food which can be found in the country in which they live, whereas women from all countries were more likely to have the American view. (Explain)

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Rozin evaluation

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Language barriers and translation issues could have created unreliable results, and issue which arises when more than one culture is studied.

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Garge

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38 pp's either watched a happy or a sad movie. They found that sad movie watches ate 38% more unhealthly popcorn whereas sad movie watches ate considerable more healthy grapes.

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Garge evaluation

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Psychological harm - short term
Real world application as giving the pp's the nutritional information about the foods lead to reduced popcorn eating and increased grape eating in both groups, mediating the effects.

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Parker

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When individuals ate high amounts in carbohydrates or chocolate in response to a low mood, they were more likely to prolong this low mood.

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Animal reserach

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Has found that subjecting monkeys to high stress has lead to changes in attitudes towards eating, leading to altered eating habits (either consuming more or less that normal.)

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Animal research evaluation

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Monkeys and humans have very simular biological and social strucutres meaning that results can be extrapolated to humans and their food choices. However, humans have access to RDA values and have the ability to make moral decisions based on concious processing, which could make animal research findings ungereralisable.

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Conner and Armitage

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Individual difference model which suggests that emotional, restained ot external eaters are likely to eat more in response to stress. They found this to be true when analysising the food dairies of 27 males and 33 females which were recorded over a one week period. These individuals snacked more in repsonse to daily hassels.

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Conner and Armitage evaluation

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Pp's were recording infomation in their natural enviornment which increases the external validitiy. However, social desirability biase may mean that not all foods consumed were recorded.