Does a Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Weight Bias? Only When Weight Discrimination Is Salient [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Compared to many other forms of social bias, weight bias is pervasive, socially accepted, and difficult to attenuate. According to the common ingroup identity model, strategies that expand group inclusiveness may promote more positive intergroup ...
Paula M. Brochu +4 more
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Perceived weight discrimination and obesity. [PDF]
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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Predictors of support for anti-weight discrimination policies among Canadian adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionWeight discrimination of individuals with overweight or obesity is associated with adverse mental and physical health. Weight discrimination is prevalent in many sectors such as within workplaces, where individuals with overweight and obesity
Matthew Levy +3 more
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The role of stress and health behaviour in linking weight discrimination and health: a secondary data analysis in England [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2023 Objective To examine the role of stress and health-risk behaviours in relationships between weight discrimination and health and well-being.Design Secondary data analysis of an observational cohort study.Setting The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ...
Andrew Steptoe +3 more
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Racial and weight discrimination associations with pain intensity and pain interference in an ethnically diverse sample of adults with obesity: a baseline analysis of the clustered randomized-controlled clinical trial the goals for eating and moving (GEM) study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Everyday experiences with racial (RD) and weight discrimination (WD) are risk factors for chronic pain in ethnically diverse adults with obesity.
Ericka N. Merriwether +8 more
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The size-weight illusion comes along with improved weight discrimination. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 When people judge the weight of two objects of equal mass but different size, they perceive the smaller one as being heavier. Up to date, there is no consensus about the mechanisms which give rise to this size-weight illusion.
Christian Wolf, Knut Drewing
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Prevalence and sociodemographic associations with weight discrimination in early adolescents [PDF]
Preventive Medicine ReportsObjectives: To evaluate the prevalence of weight discrimination (the perception of being treated unfairly based on weight) and its sociodemographic associations among early adolescents aged 10 to 13 in the United States.
Jason M. Nagata +5 more
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Weight discrimination and eating disorder symptoms in early adolescence: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
Journal of Eating DisordersBackground Weight discrimination is associated with adverse outcomes, including eating disorder (ED) symptoms, but few longitudinal studies have investigated this relationship in early adolescence.
Jason M. Nagata +8 more
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The legality of weight discrimination in Canada: an environmental scan of case law and the limits of Canadian legislation [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in HealthWeight stigma negatively impacts people with higher weights across the lifespan as well as social contexts and can lead to weight discrimination. As weight is not a protected identity in Canadian human rights legislation, it is important to better ...
Sarah Nutter +11 more
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Association between self-reported discrimination and body weight dissatisfaction among adolescents in a city in Santa Catarina, Brazil [PDF]
Revista Paulista de PediatriaObjective: This study aimed to examine the association between body weight dissatisfaction and self-reported experiences of discrimination among Brazilian adolescents, stratified by sex.
Melquesedek Ferreira da Silva Almeida +2 more
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