2010
issn 1652-4063 isbn 978-91-7668-717-8
sanna aila gustafsson holds a degree in Social
Studies and has been working since 1999 with child-ren, families and adults at the specialized Centre for Eating Disorders in Örebro, central Sweden. She began her doctoral studies at the Psychiatric Research Centre, Örebro University Hospital in 2005, carrying out postgraduate studies at the Health Academy of Örebro University.
She is also the registrar for the national quality register for Swedish eating disorder therapies.
Adolescence is a time characterized by added preoccupation with image, and concern with social acceptance. During this time girls are particularly vulnerable to develop negative body image and disordered eating. The over-all aims of this thesis were to examine personal standards, self-evaluation and attitudes to eating and weight in the development of disturbed eating in adolescent girls, and to examine how adolescent girls with a clinical eating disorder reflect upon and deal with perceived expectations in daily life. The results suggest that in order to prevent and treat eating disorders and related problems it is essential to integrate both intrapersonal and contextual factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of these conditions.
Örebro Studies in Medicine 41
örebro 2010
Doctoral Dissertation
The importance of being thin
– Perceived expectations from self
and others and the effect on self-evaluation
in girls with disordered eating
Sanna Aila Gustafsson
Medicine
