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Experimentation: Suarez et al. studied the effect of exposure to social networks and stereotypical images of the thinness ideal on ED symptomatology on a sample of 321 young adults assigned to two experimental conditions: high and low exposure to the thin ideal and found that exposure to thin ideals influences self-esteem but does not affect major factors for eating disorders like body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness.
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Survey: Cohrdes et al. studied the associations between weight- and appearance-related discrimination and eating disorders among 8504 adolescents using a German representative health monitoring survey and found weight and appearance-related discrimination, body image dissatisfaction, low self-efficacy, and high media use were highly associated with eating disorder symptoms among adolescents.
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Experiment: Meneguozo et al. studied the effects of virtual social inclusion or ostracism on emotions, perceived stress, eating psychopathology, and the drive to binge or restrict eating in 122 adolescents and adult females diagnosed with eating disorders compared to 50 healthy peers by evaluating their performance and responses to a virtual ball-tossing game and found that anorexia nervosa patients showed heightened negative effects after exclusion and bulimia nervosa patients exhibited increased negative impacts after overinclusion in the game.
How This Assignment Relates to My Writing Growth
I have always feared writings and articles that contain various technical and scientific words. This assignment has pushed me towards understanding these sorts of writings and analyzing numbers and complicated analyses written in the paper. I was able to put the entire information from the article together and relate it to my proposed research topic.
Part(s) of any CLOs that address this growth
The CLO that addresses this growth is the genre analysis. Scientific and academic writing is very difficult to understand and with all the numbers and foreign words, they make it very difficult to understand and analyze. Lab Report Approval assignment allowed me to go through various of these articles and read and understand their purpose. Due to my thorough reading, I was able to understand the purpose and style of scientific articles more deeply. I believe I have improved greatly through this
