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Weight stigma and eating behaviors on a college campus: Are students immune to stigma's effects?

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2016
College populations are groups of emerging adults undergoing significant transitions in eating and diet, being exposed to new social influences; many experience weight gain.
Alexandra Brewis, PhD, Stephanie Brennhofer, MS, RDN, Irene van Woerden, MS, Meg Bruening, PhD, MPH, RD   +3 more
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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experienced and internalized weight stigma among Spanish adolescents

BMC Public Health
Background and objective Weight stigma has negative consequences for both physiological and psychological health. Studies on weight stigma in adolescence, particularly from general populations, are scarce in the Mediterranean area.
Dimitra Anastasiadou, Salomé Tárrega, Albert Fornieles-Deu, Albert Moncada-Ribera, Anna Bach-Faig, David Sánchez-Carracedo   +5 more
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Weight stigma and mental health in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of US adults

Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionWeight stigma is associated with poor mental health outcomes. Yet little is known about whether the strength of the association between weight stigma and mental health outcomes differs by race or ethnicity, or factors that mitigate the mental
Mary A. Gerend, Anna W. Lu, Elizabeth L. Teets   +2 more
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Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian, Stuart Bedston, Olivia Deavall, Tom Crick, Lucy J. Griffiths, Ashley Akbari, Alex Lee, Gemma Hammerton, Jon Heron, Donald Forrester   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiencing weight stigma during childbirth increases the odds of cesarean birth

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Weight-biased clinical practices and institutional characteristics can have a wide impact on the quality of care provided to women with obesity. This may substantially increase their risks for poor birth outcomes.
Regula A. Schwenk, Carmen Wyss, Evelyne M. Aubry   +2 more
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Weight stigma and mental health symptoms: mediation by perceived stress

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Prior research has established that weight stigma, or social devaluation based on an individual’s body size or weight, is directly related to greater depressive and anxiety symptoms.
David G. Figueroa, William D. Murley, Jordan E. Parker, Jeffrey M. Hunger, A. Janet Tomiyama   +4 more
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Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, Ha Ngan Ngo, Chloe Le   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors among postpartum women: The mediating role of weight bias internalization and postpartum depression

International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
Background: Weight stigma is linked to adverse effects, but whether it directly heightens the risk of disordered eating behaviors or psychological factors mediate this connection among postpartum women is uncertain.
Jiayuan Peng, Xiangmin Tan, Ni Ning, James Wiley, Nan Hua, Yuan Zeng, Mei Sun   +6 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source