How did you get so thin? The effect of attribution on perceptions of underweight females

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-44

  Tantleff Dunn, Stacey ^a   Hayes, S ^a   Braun, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution theory; Eating disorders; Teasing; Thinness; Underweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESPONSIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPY; UNDERWEIGHT; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; BODY IMAGE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; BODY IMAGE; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549125947     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03327793     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Lerner R.M.: Some female stereotypes of male body build-behavior relations. Percept. Mot. Skills, 28, 363-366, 1969.
2. Klassen M.L., Jasper C.R., Harris R.J.: The role of physical appearance in managerial decisions. J. Bus. Psychol., 8, 181-198, 1993.
3. Cramer P., Steinwert T.: Thin is good, fat is bad: how early does it begin? J. Appl. Dev. Psychol., 19, 429-451, 1998.
4. Gacsaly S.A., Borges C.A.: The male physique and behavioral expectancies. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 101, 97-102, 1979.
5. Ryckman R.M., Robbins M.A., Kaczor L.M., Gold J.A.: Male and female raters' stereotyping of male and female physiques. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull., 15, 244-251, 1989.
6. Heider F.: The psychology of interpersonal relations. New York, Wiley, 1958.
7. Regan D.T., Straus E., Fazio R.: Liking and the attribution process. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol., 10, 385-397, 1974.
8. Blaine B., Williams Z.: Belief in the controllability of weight and attributions to prejudice among heavyweight women. Sex Roles, 51, 79-84, 2004.
9. Crandall C.S., Reser A.H.: Attributions and weight-based prejudice. In: Brownell K.D., Puhl R.M., Schwartz M.B., Rudd L. (Eds.). Weight bias: nature, consequences, and remedies. New York, Guilford Publications, 2005, pp. 83-96.
10. DeJong W.: The stigma of obesity: the consequences of naive assumptions concerning the causes of physical deviance. J. Health Soc. Behav., 21, 75-87, 1980.
11. Puhl R.M., Schwartz M.B., Brownell K.D.: Impact of perceived consensus on stereotypes about obese people: a new approach for reducing bias. Health Psychol., 24, 517-525, 2005.
12. Teachman B.A., Gapinski K.D., Brownell K.D., Rawlins M., Jeyaram S.: Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: the impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychol., 22, 68-78, 2003.
13. Allison D.B., Basile V.C., Yuker H.E.: The measurement of attitudes toward and beliefs about obese persons. Int. J. Eat. Disord., 10, 599-607, 1991.
14. DeJong W.: Obesity as a characterological stigma: the issue of responsibility and judgments of task performance. Psychol. Rep., 73, 963-970, 1993.
15. Bulik C.M., Allison D.B.: The genetic epidemiology of thinness. Obes. Rev., 2, 107-115, 2001.
16. Blackwell D.L., Collins J.G., Coles R.: Summary health statistics for U.S. adults: National Health Interview Survey, 1997. Vital Health Stat., 10, 1-109, 2002.
17. Hallal P.C., Wells J.C.K., Bertoldi A.D., Gazalle F.K., Silva M.C., Domingues M.R., Carret M.L., Araújo C.L., Gigante D.P.: A shift in the epidemiology of low body mass index in Brazilian adults. E. J. Cli. Nutr., 59, 1002-1006, 2005.
18. Pomeroy C.: Assessment of medical status and physical factors. In: Thompson J.K. (Ed.). Handbook of eating disorders and obesity. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2004, pp. 81-111.
19. Lundgren J.D., Anderson D.A., Thompson J.K., Shapiro J.R., Paulosky C.A.: Perception of teasing in underweight persons: a modification of the perception of teasing scale. Eat. Weight Disord., 9, 139-146, 2004.
20. Crisp A.: Stigmatization of and discrimination against people with eating disorders including a report of two nationwide surveys. Eur. Eat. Disord. Rev., 13, 147-152, 2005.
21. Crisp A.H., Gelder M.G., Rix S., Meltzer H.I., Rowlands O.J.: Stigmatisation of people with mental illnesses. Br. J. Psychiatry, 177, 4-7, 2000.
22. Holliday J., Wall E., Treasure J., Weinman J.: Perceptions of illness in individuals with anorexia nervosa: a comparison with lay men and women. Int. J. Eat. Disord., 37, 50-56, 2005.
23. Mond J.M., Robertson-Smith G., Vetere A.: Stigma and eating disorders: is there evidence of negative attitudes towards anorexia nervosa among women in the community? Journal of Mental Health, 15, 519-532, 2006.
24. Stewart M., Keel P.K., Schiavo R.S.: Stigmatization of anorexia nervosa. Int. J. Eat. Disord., 39, 320-325, 2006.
25. Johnstone J.R., Rickard K.M.: Perceptions of college women with disordered eating and exercise patterns. Soc. Behav. Pers., 34, 1035-1050, 2006.
26. Robinson B.E., Bacon J.G., O'Reilly J.: Fat phobia: measuring, understanding, and changing anti-fat attitudes. Int. J. Eat. Disord., 14, 467-480, 1993.
27. Wade J.T., Dimaria C.: Weight halo effects: individual differences in perceived life success as a function of women's race and weight. Sex Roles, 48, 461-465, 2003.