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What are the four multi-dimensional constructs that are associated with body image?
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Perceptual
Cognitive
Affectiveor emotional
Behavioral
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Body image is defined as....
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Multidimensional construct that reflects how we see our own body, and how we think, feel, and act toward it.
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Define preceptual dimensions....
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Reflects the picture of our own body that we form in our mind.
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Define cognitive dimensions....
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Body image reflects how we think about and evaluate our bodies in terms of both appearance and function
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Define affective or emotional dimension
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Body image refelcts feelings expereinced in relations to the body appearance and functions
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Define behavorial dimensions
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Things we do that reflect our positive or negative perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about our bodies.
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A person that has a postive self-evaluation along the 4 body dimension have what type of body image?
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Healthy Body image
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A person that has neagtive self- evaluation along any or all of the body dimensions has what type of body image?
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Body image disturbance
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True or False Women are the only ones that experience body disturbance
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False
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What is bulimia/ anorexia nervosa?
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Eating disorder charcterzied by binge eating excessive compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain and a self evaluation that is gihly influenced by body shape and weight.
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Bulimia is further classified into two types?
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Purging Type and Non Purging type
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What are sympthoms of purging type?
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Regular espisodes of self induced votmiting or misuse of laxatives or diurectics.
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What are sympthoms of non purging type?
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Regular use of compensatory behavior such as fasting or excessive excersing but not purging
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True/ False
Women diagonosed with eating disorder reported greater body image dissatisfaction and more distorted body image perception than the general population?
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True
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True/ False
APA found that after sucuessful treatment of bulimia nervosa 1/3 of the women relaspe within 8 to 9 years
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True
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