Eating-Problem Patients' Conceptions of Normality

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Abstract
Three groups of people.sbd.anorexic patients, helping professionals, and a control group.sbd.filled out the Eating Attitude Test (Garner and Garfinkel, 1979) three times. The control subjects were asked to fill it out honestly for themselves; as they imagined an ordinary person might complete it; and, finally, as they would expect a patient with an eating disorder to fill it out. The anorexic patients were asked to complete it honestly for themselves, as they imagined an ordinary person might fill it out; and, finally, as they would expect to fill it out when fully recovered. The professional filled out the questionnaires as they imagined the typical patient with eating disorders might; as they imagined the ordinary person might complete it; and as a recovered patient might complete it. The results provided support for some but not all hypotheses, the most central of which was that there would be a difference between how the patients rated the ordinary person and how control subjects (supposedly ordinary people) rated themselves.

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