音频下载[点击右键另存为]Young girls today are expected to excel academically, be athletic and look like models. That is putting a growing number of teenage girls at risk for aggression, eating disorders, depression and even suicide, says psychologist Stephen Hinshaw, who tells us more about this serious problem in his book
Triple Bind.
The title of the book is a play on the phrase "double bind." The term was coined by 1950s social researchers to describe a situation in which a person is given conflicting messages, so that if they obey one, they end up disobeying the other. University of California psychologist Stephen Hinshaw says girls today are faced with u
NPRecedented - and conflicting - social expectations, and they are unable to meet them all.
"First, girls are still raised to be our caregivers and nurturers, taking care of others in the next generation," he says. "Second, we've got to raise them now to be ultra competitive, because they are the top of their class, getting athletic scholarships as well as u
NPRecedented academic success. So that's the double bind. And the triple bind comes in with the pressure to be unrelentingly perfect."
The price of perfection 