Summarize the literature review

The article Parenting Styles and Eating disorder by Lobera et al talks about the how
the different types of parenting style can have a positive influence on individuals
with eating disorders during the early years of the patients. In exploring the four
main parenting styles which includes affectionless control, optimal, affectionate
constraint and neglectful parenting p 730 Libera, researchers further explore
whether there is a correlation between an individual who has an eating disorder and
what they perceive their parents level of control and care for them during their first
16 years of life. Results showed that a neglectful parenting style often led to an
individual becoming anorexic or develop bulimia. Even during the treatment period
of the patients, the role of high controlling and low caring mothers still persisted
whereas the initial overprotective roles of fathers seem to change. In conclusion,
the study shows that

Summarize the study and findings

This study was based on 70 individuals who are regular patients at the Institute of
Behavioural Sciences at the Eating Disorder Unit.
Critical Analysis

Challenging the Authors claim

Due to the limited number of samples the author used for this research, the
conclusion that he claimed seems to be relatively weak. By using participants from
only one Institute, the sample was not randomized and therefore can lead to bias
results. It could be that patients from that specific geography had less money which
resulted in their parents always working and neglecting their children. Also in such
region where the children are growing up in a poorer environment, malnutrition,
lower education and higher stress level can also lead to eating disorders which the
author did not count for. There are a lot of outside factors that could have led to the
eating disorder that the author should have noted in his research other than just
parental neglecting. In a more developed research, one should randomly select
participants from different institutions in different regions and if a positive
correlation did exist between eating disorder and parenting styles, it can be said
with more confident that there is a positive correlation between the two.
Another issue with the results of this research as the author mentioned in the article
is that the conclusions were made from the surveys that the participants took. It is

the perceived parenting style that took into account but that does not reflect what
the real parenting style might have been. No surveys were given to the patients
parents to see whether they perceive themselves as the using the parenting style
as their children claim they use. The ideal way to monitor what the real parenting
style is within the household would have been a steady and secretively monitoring
of the relationship between the parents and their children throughout the first 16
years. This can be very costly, timely, and unethical and in the end, it may not even
show accurate results.