Weight Stigma 1 Running Title: Children's Weight Stigma Weight Stigma and Educators’ Perceptions of Children’s Psychological Symptoms
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Weight stigma and health: The mediating role of coping responses.
OBJECTIVE Considerable evidence has documented links between weight stigma and poor health, independent of weight. However, little research has assessed how individuals cope with weight stigma, and how stigma-specific coping responses contribute to health. The present study examined multiple stigma-specific coping responses as mediators of the relationship between experienced weight stigma and ...
متن کاملStigma, obesity, and the health of the nation's children.
Preventing childhood obesity has become a top priority in efforts to improve our nation's public health. Although much research is needed to address this health crisis, it is important to approach childhood obesity with an understanding of the social stigma that obese youths face, which is pervasive and can have serious consequences for emotional and physical health. This report reviews existin...
متن کاملInternalized societal attitudes moderate the impact of weight stigma on avoidance of exercise.
Experiences with weight stigma negatively impact both psychological outcomes (e.g., body dissatisfaction, depression) and behavioral outcomes (e.g., dieting, exercise). However, not everyone is equally affected by experiences with weight stigma. This study examined whether internalized societal attitudes about weight moderated the impact of weight stigma. Adult participants (n = 111) completed ...
متن کاملThe relationship between weight stigma and eating behavior is explained by weight bias internalization and psychological distress.
Weight stigma is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including disordered eating, but the psychological mechanisms underlying these associations are not well understood. The present study tested whether the association between weight stigma experiences and disordered eating behaviors (emotional eating, uncontrolled eating, and loss-of-control eating) are mediated by weight bias intern...
متن کاملWeight stigma mediates the association between BMI and self-reported health.
OBJECTIVE Weight stigma is pervasive in the United States. We tested the hypothesis that stigma may be a mechanism through which obesity negatively affects self-reported health. Two studies examined whether perceived weight-based discrimination and concerns over weight stigma mediated the association between BMI and self-reported psychological health (Study 1) and physical health (Study 2). M...
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تاریخ انتشار 2008