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Internalized Weight Bias and Disordered Eating: The Mediating Role of Body Image Avoidance and Drive for Thinness [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Internalized weight bias has been linked with undesirable physical and psychological health outcomes, including disordered eating. Interventions have targeted internalized weight bias and associated outcomes, but little is known about underlying ...
Rachel D. Marshall, Janet D. Latner, Akihiko Masuda   +2 more
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Internalized weight bias is associated with perceived exertion and affect during exercise in a sample with higher body weight [PDF]

Obesity Science & Practice, 2021
Objective For individuals with overweight/obesity, internalized weight bias (IWB) is linked to low physical activity (PA). This study used a laboratory‐based paradigm to test the hypothesis that IWB moderates the association between heart rate (HR) and ...
KayLoni L. Olson, Stephanie P. Goldstein, Rena R. Wing, David M. Williams, Kathryn E. Demos, Jessica L. Unick   +5 more
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Designing Ruby: Protocol for a 2-Arm, Brief, Digital Randomized Controlled Trial for Internalized Weight Bias [PDF]

JMIR Research Protocols, 2021
BackgroundWeight bias internalization, also known as weight self-stigma, is a serious health concern for individuals with higher body weight.
Christina M Hopkins, Hailey N Miller, Taylor L Brooks, Lihua Mo-Hunter, Dori M Steinberg, Gary G Bennett   +5 more
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The Relationship of Internalized Weight Bias to Weight Change in Treatment-Seeking Adults with Overweight

Obesities, 2022
The present study examined data from a randomized controlled trial exploring whether behavioral weight loss treatment was associated with changes in internalized weight bias. The relationship between internalized weight bias and psychological functioning
Rachel D. Marshall, Kerry S. O’Brien, Janet D. Latner   +2 more
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Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Social Identities for People Living With Obesity [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Obesity is a stigmatized disease due to pervasive personal, professional, institutional, and cultural weight bias. Individuals with obesity experience weight bias across their lifespan and settings, which can affect their life chances and significantly ...
Ximena Ramos Salas, Mary Forhan, Timothy Caulfield, Arya M. Sharma, Kim D. Raine   +4 more
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The hidden pathways to internalized weight bias: from insecure attachment to depressive self-schemas [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundInternalized weight bias (IWB) is associated with adverse physical and psychopathological outcomes, yet the cognitive and emotional mechanisms underlying its development in non-clinical populations remain insufficiently understood.
Emanuela Bianciardi, Emanuela Bianciardi, Rossella Mattea Quinto, Rossella Mattea Quinto, Ester Longo, Federica De Angelis, Alberto Siracusano, Cinzia Niolu, Cinzia Niolu, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Giorgio Di Lorenzo   +10 more
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Body shaming and internalized weight bias as potential precursors of eating disorders in adolescents [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionBody shaming (BS) is a growing phenomenon within the school context, especially among adolescents. Recently, it has been described as an unrepeated act in which a person expresses unsolicited, mostly negative comments about an individual’s ...
Silvia Cerolini, Mariacarolina Vacca, Anna Zegretti, Andrea Zagaria, Caterina Lombardo   +4 more
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Internalized weight bias and psychological wellbeing: An exploratory investigation of a preliminary model. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
Although a growing body of literature demonstrates negative effects of internalized weight bias (IWB), the relationships between IWB and relevant social, psychological, and behavioral variables have not yet been evaluated systematically.
Morgan S Lee, Brian D Gonzalez, Brent J Small, Joel Kevin Thompson   +3 more
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Self-consciousness negatively mediates the positive association between internalized weight bias and weight status in cross-cultural survey and brain imaging study [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionWeight bias internalization (WBI), where individuals adopt negative stereotypes about excess weight, is linked to adverse health outcomes. Although prior research indicates associations between WBI, weight status, and psychological factors ...
Yuko Nakamura, Yuko Nakamura, Karin Hayashi, Norihide Maikusa   +3 more
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Exploring pathways between internalized weight bias, eating disorder psychopathology, and weight loss expectations in treatment-seeking adults with binge eating and obesity [PDF]

Eating and Weight Disorders
Purpose Individuals with obesity and binge eating face weight stigma, which can lead to internalized weight bias (IWB), reinforce eating disorder (ED) pathology, and promote unrealistic weight loss expectations (WLE).
Katrina T. Obleada, Adrian Ortega, Isabel R. Rooper, Leah M. Parsons, Macarena Kruger, Chidiebere Azubuike, Lindsay D. Lipman, Diane Chen, Jennifer E. Wildes, Andrea K. Graham   +9 more
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