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Comparing Self-Report Measures of Internalized Weight Stigma: The Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire versus the Weight Bias Internalization Scale. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Internalized weight stigma has gained growing interest due to its association with multiple health impairments in individuals with obesity. Especially high internalized weight stigma is reported by individuals undergoing bariatric surgery.
Claudia Hübner, Ricarda Schmidt, Janine Selle, Hinrich Köhler, Astrid Müller, Martina de Zwaan, Anja Hilbert   +6 more
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Weight stigma speaks Italian, too [PDF]

, 2023
Purpose: Weight stigma is the negative weight related attitudes and beliefs towards individuals because of their overweight or obesity. Subjects with obesity are often victim of weight-related stigma resulting in a significant negative social consequence.
Muscogiuri, G., Di Pauli, D., Docimo, A., Savastano, S., Verde, L., Colao, A., Barrea, L.   +6 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unique Associations of Thin‐Ideal Internalization and Internalized Weight Stigma With Body Dissatisfaction Across Body Sizes

Journal of Clinical Psychology
Objectives The internalization of socioculturally influenced body ideals, including thin‐ideal internalization and internalized weight stigma, is consistently associated with body dissatisfaction.
Emma R. Harris, Samantha L. Hahn, K. Jean Forney   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dismantling weight stigma in eating disorder treatment: Next steps for the field

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
The authors posit current guidelines and treatment for eating disorders (EDs) fail to adequately address, and often perpetuate, weight stigma. The social devaluation and denigration of higher-weight individuals cuts across nearly every life domain and is
Mindy L. McEntee, Samantha R. Philip, S. Phelan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Streamlining Diagnosis of Bardet–Biedl Syndrome: New Diagnostic Algorithm With Updated Criteria

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considerable advances have been made in our understanding of Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS), particularly in its core clinical features and molecular genetics, warranting an update to the existing diagnostic criteria framework. Using a rigorous, evidence‐based, and consensus‐driven process, a multidisciplinary group of international experts and ...
Jeremy J. Pomeroy, Jesse Richards, Brooke R. Sweeney, Seema Kumar, Katie E. Queen, Joshua Zaritsky, Carl H. Cramer, Elias I. Traboulsi, Brittni A. Scruggs, Erica E. Davis, Ekaterina Keifer, Emma McGibbon, Timothy Ogden, Bendert De Graaf, Tonia Hymers, Elizabeth Forsythe, Philip Beales   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Words matter: a qualitative investigation of which weight status terms are acceptable and motivate weight loss when used by health professionals [PDF]

, 2011
<p><b>Background:</b> Obesity prevalence is increasing, which is a major public health concern due to increased risks of associated morbidity.
Benzeval, Michaela, Michaela Benzeval, Gray, Cindy M., Lorimer Karen, Karen Lorimer, Anderson Annie S, Hunt, K., Sally Wyke, Annie S Anderson, Gray Cindy M, Wyke, S., Hunt Kate, Anderson, Annie S, Wyke Sally, Anderson, A.S., Lorimer, Karen, Cindy M Gray, Gray, C.M., Hunt, Kate, Anderson, Annie S., Benzeval, M., Gray, Cindy M, Wyke, Sally, Benzeval Michaela, Lorimer, K., Anderson, Annie S.; id_orcid, Kate Hunt   +26 more
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Psychiatric and Cognitive Features in Italian Women With the FMR1 Premutation: A Comprehensive Assessment Using SCID‐5 and Standardized Cognitive Measures

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women with the FMR1 premutation (PM) are at increased risk for fragile X‐associated conditions (FXPAC), including cognitive and psychiatric features collectively termed fragile X‐associated neuropsychiatric disorders (FXAND). This study is the first to systematically investigate cognitive and psychiatric features in Italian female premutation ...
Federica Alice Maria Montanaro, Randi J. Hagerman, Giuseppina Spano, Flora Tassone, Giancarlo Logroscino, Andrea Bosco   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic, socioeconomic and life-course risk factors for internalized weight stigma in adulthood: evidence from an English birth cohort study

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Summary Background Obesity is highly stigmatized, with negative obesity-related stereotypes widespread across society. Internalized weight stigma (IWS) is linked to negative outcomes including poor mental health and disordered eating.
Amanda M. Hughes, Stuart W. Flint, K. Clare, A. Kousoulis, E. Rothwell, H. Bould, L. D. Howe   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The weight of stigma: Cortisol reactivity to manipulated weight stigma [PDF]

, 2015
ObjectiveRates of weight-based stigmatization have steadily increased over the past decade. The psychological and physiological consequences of weight stigma remain understudied.MethodsThis study examined the effects of experimentally manipulated weight ...
Himmelstein, Mary S, Tomiyama, A Janet, Belsky, Angela C Incollingo   +2 more
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