Body Image and Exercise

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