ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 presents the family and sociocultural predictors of body image development, highlighting and characterizing the role of social and family myths and emotional attachment patterns as predictors. Aside from characterizing the most basic myths and messages about eating and body image as well as the attributes of family and attachment patterns and their role in shaping body image (especially in the relationship between the mothers’ and daughters’ body image), Chapter 2 also presents the specific psychological description of the emotional states experienced in the families of people with inappropriate body image related to their attitudes toward eating. The identification and characterization of psychological profiles describing the specificity of the sociocultural indices of body image among young women and men are an important element in the psychological diagnosis of the risk of dysfunctions in experiencing one’s own body, which might facilitate the development of anorexic readiness, bigorexia, or other anti-health eating behaviors. To complete this description, Chapter 2 also suggests a classification of the psychological profiles of the specificity of the sociocultural indices of body image among young women and men based on the results of own research.
