Family Influence On Eating Disorders
Research Proposal:
The Role of the Family on Eating Disorders The proposed research is designed to address the deficit in knowledge regarding the refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height defined as an eating disorder, including lack of information about the impact of family environment and upbringing on children at different age levels and the absence of longitudinal data regarding the role of individual risk factors in developing ED. The three most common types of eating disorders are Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Researchers have identified common risk factors that can be both contributing or causing the development of an eating disorder. Some of them can predict the onset of any eating disorder whereas others are specific to the onset of a particular disorder. The risk factors may include: body dissatisfaction, negative affect, thin-ideal internalization, dieting, family and social support deficits. In addition, there are some factors that have been shown to be connected to the development of an ED, such as biological, psychological, social and/or …show more content…
The Family Environment Scale (FES) by Moos and Moos (1981) is a 90-item true-false scale with subscales assessing: cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, moral-religious emphasis, organization, and control. The FES assesses issues such as independence, conflict, and control and it has been used in a number of ED family studies (Attie & Brooks-Gunn, 1989; Shisslak, McKeon &. Crago, 1990; Williams, Chamove, & Millar, 1990). It has been shown to have good test-retest reliability (Strober,
The Role of the Family on Eating Disorders The proposed research is designed to address the deficit in knowledge regarding the refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height defined as an eating disorder, including lack of information about the impact of family environment and upbringing on children at different age levels and the absence of longitudinal data regarding the role of individual risk factors in developing ED. The three most common types of eating disorders are Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Researchers have identified common risk factors that can be both contributing or causing the development of an eating disorder. Some of them can predict the onset of any eating disorder whereas others are specific to the onset of a particular disorder. The risk factors may include: body dissatisfaction, negative affect, thin-ideal internalization, dieting, family and social support deficits. In addition, there are some factors that have been shown to be connected to the development of an ED, such as biological, psychological, social and/or …show more content…
The Family Environment Scale (FES) by Moos and Moos (1981) is a 90-item true-false scale with subscales assessing: cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, moral-religious emphasis, organization, and control. The FES assesses issues such as independence, conflict, and control and it has been used in a number of ED family studies (Attie & Brooks-Gunn, 1989; Shisslak, McKeon &. Crago, 1990; Williams, Chamove, & Millar, 1990). It has been shown to have good test-retest reliability (Strober,