'What can her body do?' Reducing weight stigma by appreciating another person's body functionality
| العنوان: | 'What can her body do?' Reducing weight stigma by appreciating another person's body functionality |
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| المؤلفون: | Francesca Lissandrello, Sarah E. Stutterheim, Moon I. Waldén, Angela Meadows, Jessica M. Alleva, Melissa J. Atkinson, Kai Karos |
| المساهمون: | Section Eating Disorders and Obesity, RS: FPN CPS II, RS: FPN CPS I, Section Experimental Health Psychology, Section Applied Social Psychology, RS: FPN WSP II |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE PLOS ONE, 16(5):e0251507. Public Library of Science PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0251507 (2021) Alleva, J, Karos, K, Meadows, A, Walden, M, Stutterheim, S, Lisandrello, F & Atkinson, M 2021, ' What can her body do?” Reducing weight stigma by appreciating another person’s body functionality ', PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 5, e0251507 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251507 |
| بيانات النشر: | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Physiology, Social Stigma, Psychological intervention, Antipathy, Social Sciences, Overweight, Biochemistry, Developmental psychology, Body Mass Index, Fats, Sociology, Psychological Attitudes, Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology, media_common, Multidisciplinary, WOMEN, Social Discrimination, Middle Aged, Lipids, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Physiological Parameters, Adipose Tissue, BIAS, Connective Tissue, Weight stigma, Medicine, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Female, medicine.symptom, Anatomy, Research Article, Adult, Adolescent, Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Closeness, MEDIA, Young Adult, INTERGROUP CONTACT, Intervention (counseling), medicine, Body Image, Humans, Obesity, ATTITUDES, Exercise, PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION, OBJECTIFICATION THEORY, Science & Technology, Body Weight, Biology and Life Sciences, ADULTS, Biological Tissue, DISCRIMINATION, FAT, Attribution, Body mass index |
| الوصف: | Objective Weight stigma is prevalent across multiple life domains, and negatively affects both psychological and physical health. Yet, research into weight stigma reduction techniques is limited, and rarely results in reduced antipathy toward higher-weight individuals. The current pre-registered study investigated a novel weight stigma reduction intervention. We tested whether a writing exercise focusing on body functionality (i.e., everything the body can do, rather than how it looks) of another person leads to reductions in weight stigma. Method Participants were 98 women (Mage = 23.17, Range = 16–63) who viewed a photograph of a higher-weight woman, “Anne,” and were randomised to complete a writing exercise either describing what “Anne’s” body could do (experimental group) or describing her home (active control group). Facets of weight stigma were assessed at pretest and posttest. Results At posttest, the experimental group evidenced higher fat acceptance and social closeness to “Anne” compared with the active control group. However, no group differences were found in attribution complexity, responsibility, and likeability of “Anne”. Conclusions A brief body functionality intervention effectively reduced some, but not all, facets of weight stigma in women. This study provides evidence that functionality-focused interventions may hold promise as a means to reduce weight stigma. |
| وصف الملف: | Electronic-eCollection; application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e4b44a3a3ad5b25ccbd226e40a9a195d https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/679948 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....e4b44a3a3ad5b25ccbd226e40a9a195d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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