weight stigma in children an adults Flashcards
Facts about weight stigma
Phul and Heuer (2009):
Puhl, Andreyeva & Brownell, (2008)
Puhl & Heuer, (2009):
negative attitudes towards ob
2nd most commn discrimination in women
in relationships, workplace, health care and media.
CHildren
Harrison et al (2016)
When forced to chose 42 out of 43 children would rather be friends with normal weight (Thomas) than overweight.
Children
When does weight stigma start
Cramer and Steinweight (1998
Mean character picked more as overweight character in all children regardless of age. 3 year olds attribute more negative traits to OW compared to thin, but also increases from 3 to 4.
Impact of weight stigma in children
Puhl, Peterson & Luedicke, (2013):
71% of boys enrolled in weight loss programmer reported being bullied.
Impact of weight stigma in children mental health
Eisenberg et al. (2006)
Weight related teasing predicted lower self esteem, lower body image and more depressive symptoms, independent of BMI.
Impact of weight stigma in children
mental health
Eaton et al. (2005):
Those who were weight- teased were 2 times more likely to think about suicide.
Impact of weight stigma and school
Puhl et al (2011) more likely to avoid school.
Zavodny (2013) Teachers rated heavier childrens academic performance to be worse than their test results showed.
Giel et al (2013) workplace
Less likely to be offered jobs, less managerial and professional roles, less well paid, less promotions – women more affected than men.
Workplace
Nickson et al (2016)
Customer facing jobs, weight status did affect hiring- in females but not males.
health setting
Phelan et al (2015)
Davis-Coelho et al. (2000)
Sabin, Marini & Nosek, (2012)
Phelan et al. (2015): blood pressure cuffs, weighing scales and waiting room chairs too small = unintended humiliation
Davis-Coelho et al. (2000): psychologists rated OW as less compliant, more severe symptoms and predicted worse prognosis.
Sabin, Marini & Nosek, (2012)- Strong implicit and explicit anti fat bias in health care professionals even if they were obese.
Shwarts et al (2003) Explicit and implicit beliefs
explicit= more lazy stupid and worthless. Implicit anti fat bias- more likely to pair OW with negative words. BMI was not significantly associated with the other IAT scores. A higher BMI also related to lower explicit anti-fat good-bad scores (r= −0.14, p = 0.01) but not any of the other explicit scores.
Health
Puhl & Suh, (2015):
Mitchel et al (2008)
Gudzune et al (2013)
Health
Puhl & Suh, (2015): increased cortisol and blood pressure
Mitchel et al (2008) less likely to attend cancer screanings
Gudzune et al (2013) less effective communication- less likely to recall advice and follow instructions.
Callahan (2013) public perception
Puhl and SUg (2015)
Callahan (2013) public perception that weight stigma will motivate people to lose weight- but opposite negatively impacts food intake, physical activity, and weight loss attempts. (Puhl and Suh (2015)]
Schevy et al (2011) video
women watched stigma video - 3 times greater intake
Gudzune et al (2014) online survey
, more weight loss attemots in pps who perceieved GP to negatively judge their weight but no more likely to lose clinically significant amount of weight.
