Discuss how individuals who develop anorexia nervosa and bulimia are conformist in their strong commitment to conventional norms and goals. Include how parents encourage this conformity.
What will be an ideal response?
They consistently excel at school and work. For example, group members generally completed college-preparatory courses in high school and joined honor societies and academic clubs. They display notable conventionality as “model children” and are “the pride and joy” of their parents, accommodating themselves to the wishes of others. They are strongly, even excessively, attached to their parents. Parents emphasize conformity and value achievement. Parents suppressed conflicts, to preserve the image of the “all-American family.” Families appear close-knit, demonstrating palpable emotional ties. Such families have been termed “enmeshed” and “overprotective.” Families were also conforming regarding eating, body weight, and exercising. Respondents reported their fathers’ preoccupationwith exercising and their mothers’ engrossment in food preparation. For example, when group members dieted and lost weight, they received an extraordinary amount ofapproval. Among the family, body size became a matter of “friendly rivalry.”
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