The impact of target weight and gender on perceptions of likeability, personality attributes, and functional impairment

Obesity Facts

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 311-317

  Musher Eizenman, Dara ^a   Carels, Robert A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Body size; Gender differences; Overweight; Weight bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONALITY; PREJUDICE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449408506     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235915     Document Type: Article

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