Adolescent Eating Disorders

In the 21 st century,young people(especially women)pay more and more attention to their body shape.In their eyes,thin is beauty.As a result,people pay more and more attention to diet,weight loss and fitness.Some people are prone to have wrong body image recognition and negative emotional experience.They try their best to lose weight.Improper eating behavior is often the best choice.With it,you may suffer from eating disorders.Eating disorder,also known as eating disorder,was once regarded as the product of western culture.In fact,it is still prevalent in some economically developed eastern countries,such as China,South Korea,Japan,etc.,and the age of onset is decreasing,gradually becoming a severe test for the healthy development of young people.This disorder is very common in young people,and peers are considered to be an important one Influencing factors.Previous studies have systematically combed the manifestation and mechanism of peer influence on adolescents’ eating disorders,but there are still several problems to be solved,such as whether adolescents and their peers have similar eating disorders? Are teenagers more likely to choose friends with similar levels of eating disorders? Can peers have an impact on adolescents’ eating disorders?In order to investigate the above problems,this study is divided into three parts.In the pre experiment,130 adolescents in three classes of a middle school in Changchun were selected by random sampling to determine the status of eating disorders.Based on the horizontal social network analysis,932 subjects were measured by the index random graph model to investigate the homogeneity of eating disorders between adolescents and their peers.In Study 2,based on the longitudinal social network analysis,a random actor model was used to measure 900 subjects at three time points in a year,in order to explore whether the homogeneity was caused by selection effect or influence effect.According to the results of this study,the main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Adolescents have eating disorders,such as dieting,bulimia and body dissatisfaction.(2)Adolescents and their peers have homogeneity in diet and body dissatisfaction.(3)The cause of diet and body dissatisfaction homogeneity is based on peer influence effect.