An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors

Body Image

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 194-199

  Swami, Viren ^a,b   Pietschnig, Jakob ^c   Stieger, Stefan ^c   Tovée, Martin J ^d   Voracek, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HELP UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti fat attitudes; Individual differences; Obesity stigma; Underweight stigma; Weight bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING;

AUSTRIA; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STEREOTYPING; THINNESS;

EID: 77953025454     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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