THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
PSYCHOLOGY MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
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cultural ideals of beauty that increasingly encourage thinness.
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increasing levels of childhood sexual abuse.
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the onset of adolescence at increasingly younger ages.
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the decreasing emphasis on maintaining stable marriages.
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Detailed explanation-1: -describes the toll anorexia can take on the body including low blood pressure, damage to the kidneys and liver, and heart failure. notes that anorexia has increased by 36 percent every five years since the 1950s-at least 8 million people suffer from it-and the most vulnerable age group is 15-24 year old women.
Detailed explanation-2: -Recent findings. Although the overall incidence rate of anorexia nervosa is considerably stable over the past decades, the incidence among younger persons (aged <15 years) has increased.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dieting behavior in anorexia nervosa is driven by an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat.
Detailed explanation-4: -Anorexia (an-o-REK-see-uh) nervosa-often simply called anorexia-is an eating disorder characterized by an abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of weight.