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Perceived weight discrimination and obesity.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Weight discrimination is prevalent in American society. Although associated consistently with psychological and economic outcomes, less is known about whether weight discrimination is associated with longitudinal changes in obesity.
Angelina R Sutin, Antonio Terracciano
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Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination [PDF]
The British Journal of Sociology, 2020 AbstractA growing strand of the literature finds a causal negative impact of terrorism on undifferentiated discriminatory attitudes toward Muslims, migrants, and other minorities. In this paper, we argue that jihadist terrorism threatens first and foremost Muslims.
Marco Giani, Luca Paolo Merlino
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Perceived Discrimination Among Adolescents in Ireland
Health Education & Behavior, 2022 Adolescents belonging to minority or marginalized groups often experience discrimination, which may negatively affect their mental and physical health. Using the dataset of the 2018 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study, we analyzed perceived discrimination based on various grounds in four minority groups of schoolchildren in Ireland ...
András Költő +5 more
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Obesities, 2023 This study aimed to explore factors associated with perceived stress in adults with higher body sizes. An analysis of data from participants who self-reported higher body weight was conducted (n = 1716). The mean (standard deviation) age was 55.92 (15.94)
Nadeeja N. Wijayatunga +2 more
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Perceived discrimination, psychological distress and health [PDF]
Sociology of Health & Illness, 2010 AbstractRacism and discrimination can have significant implications for health, through complex biopsychosocial interactions. Latino groups, and particularly Puerto Ricans, are an understudied population in the United States in terms of the prevalence of discrimination and its relevance to health.
Todorova, Irina L.G. +3 more
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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2022 The present study was based on the rejection-identification model regarding migrants acculturation. Personal perceived discrimination, acculturation attitudes, self-construal, and psychological well-being were examined simultaneously in Albanian and ...
Evangelia Kateri +2 more
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Disability, perceived discrimination and political participation [PDF]
International Political Science Review, 2016 Disability affects the lives of hundreds of millions across the world. People with disabilities often experience discrimination and unequal treatment. Sometimes the mere categorization of people into groups, that is, ‘healthy’ vs. ‘disabled’, is enough to trigger discriminatory behaviour against people with disabilities.
Papageorgiou Achillefs +1 more
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Perceived social support and discrimination and oral health behaviors in adolescents
Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2021 Objectives The aims of this study were to examine the associations between perceived social support and oral health behaviors among adolescents and if this perception had a protective effect against the influence of perceived racial discrimination on ...
Maryam Amin +2 more
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Scaling and discriminability of perceived gloss
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2020 While much attention has been given to understanding biases in gloss perception (e.g., changes in perceived reflectance as a function of lighting, shape, viewpoint and other factors), here we investigated sensitivity to changes in surface reflectance.
Jacob R. Cheeseman +3 more
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Perceived age discrimination in older adults [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2013 to examine perceived age discrimination in a large representative sample of older adults in England.this cross-sectional study of over 7,500 individuals used data from the fifth wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), a longitudinal cohort study of men and women aged 52 years and older in England.
Rippon, I +4 more
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