Subject Index 377significant events model 250 – 2
childhood sexual abuse 251
parental loss 251– 2
problems with 252
size/shape
belief in dieting and 123
discrepancy from ideal 98 – 9, 105
distorted estimation 98, 99, 107
female 84 – 5, 86, 87, 96, 106
freedom and 91, 93
male 85, 87, 96
meaning of 3, 82 – 96
media representation 82 – 7
negative aspects 95 – 6, 99 –100
physical characteristics 87 – 96
qualitative literature 90 – 5
quantitative research 89 – 90
self-control and 91, 92
stereotypes 87 – 96, 106, 122 – 3
success 93 – 5
skeleton (stunted growth) 220, 222 – 3
skin problems 231, 232
slimming clubs 120 –1, 124 – 5, 205
slow metabolism theory 159 – 60
smoking 13, 15, 17 –18, 52 – 3, 112 –13,
136 – 7, 153, 164, 203, 204
social class 26, 65, 72, 91, 93
anorexia nervosa and 105, 217
body dissatisfaction and 104 – 5,
108, 110, 115
bulimia nervosa and 229
social cognition theory (SCT) 19,
44–9
social comparison processes 108
social foods 65
social interaction 63, 65
health vs pleasure 72 – 4, 75
meal as love 72
power relations 66, 74, 81
social learning 33, 43, 61– 2, 277
described 35 – 6
maternal aspects 37
media/advertising 37 – 8
parental attitudes 36 – 7
peers 35 – 6
social norms 33, 44, 45 – 7, 49, 212,
226, 283
social phobia 224
social power 66, 76 – 7, 81
socially sanctioned pathway (eating
disorders) 246, 249 – 50, 276
sociocultural model
eating disorders 245 – 50, 253
gender 246 – 7
identity 247 – 8
problems with 250
socially sanctioned pathway 246,
249 – 50, 276
space /invisibility 248 – 9
Socratic questions 261, 263, 268
Stages of Change model 19, 184,
268–9
stereotypes 247
of size 87 – 96, 106, 122 – 3
stimulus–response process 238
stomach cancer 15
STOP regain clinical trial 186
strategic approach (family systems
model) 243
stress 33, 57 – 61, 62, 172
stress eating paradox 58
structural approach (family systems
model) 243
stunted growth 220, 222, 223
subjective norm 44 – 5, 48
success, size and 93 – 5
suffragettes 77
suicide 221, 231, 232
superstitious thinking 240
“superwoman syndrome” 247
surgical treatments 190, 196 – 9, 210
Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study
197, 199
sweet tastes/foods 31– 2, 55