...Julia Petersen; Bjarne Schmalbach; Elmar Brähler; Oliver Decker; Anja Hilbert Introduction: The Weight Control/Blame (WCB) subscale of the Antifat Attitudes Test (AFAT) measures weight stigma, particularly beliefs linking obesity to personal responsibility, which contributes to discrimination...

... to such intervention could impact weight bias, stigma, and discrimination among medical center staff in the long-term. Obesity Weight bias Weight stigma Weight discrimination Healthcare professionals © 2022 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel 2022 Open Access License / Drug Dosage...

...Anja Hilbert; Markus Zenger; Claudia Luck-Sikorski; Elmar Brähler Introduction: Recent years have witnessed a medicalization of obesity, promoting a classification as a disease or disability in order to reduce or protect against weight stigma and discrimination. This study sought to investigate...

... effect weight stigma can have on health behaviors. Initiatives are needed to reduce weight stigma in exercise contexts; additionally, initiatives to promote physical activity should focus on helping individuals with obesity to establish coping strategies to reduce the experienced burden from weight...

...-sectional, anonymous, and computerized self-report survey was completed by 285 certified physical therapists (average age 39.6 ± 10.1 years) and 115 PT students (average age 26.4 ± 4.9 years). The study used three validated weight stigma questionnaires employed in earlier studies to determine different...

... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Weight stigma Healthcare Family...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Obesity Loneliness Depression Weight stigma Overweight and obesity are viewed as a major challenge for public health. According to estimations, around 38% of the adult population worldwide will be overweight and another 20...

...Johannes Carl; Hendrik K. Thedinga; Stephan Zipfel; Ansgar Thiel Objective: There is a need for more experimental research on weight stigma and physical activity, specifically among men with obesity. Yet, validated procedures are required. The goal of this study was i) to develop a 10-min video...

... the relationship between interpersonal sources of weight stigma, family weight history, and WBI. Methods: Participants with obesity (N = 178, 87.6% female, 71.3% black) completed questionnaires that assessed the frequency with which they experienced weight stigma from various interpersonal sources. Participants...

... to in the content or advertisements. Obesity Weight stigma Attitudes Intentions Bias reduction There is much evidence that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-aged children has increased in recent decades across all countries, including Ireland [ 1 ]. Overweight and obesity...

.../100000002 Stereotype threat Stigma consciousness Obesity Weight stigma Group identity © 2013 S. Karger GmbH, Freiburg 2013 Open Access License / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Open Access License: This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Weight stigma Victimization Obesity...

... to in the content or advertisements. Stigmatization Weight stigma Media Newspapers Content analysis Original Article Obesity Facts 2009;2:46 51 DOI: 10.1159/000195697 Published online: February 9, 2009 Obesity in Print: An Analysis of Daily Newspapers Anja Hilbert Jens Ried Department of Psychology...