Social and Psychological Factors in Obesity

Obesity: Science to Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 347-363

  Hill, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Better public and professional knowledge about obesity helps to relieve the psychological and social burdens of obesity; Body image distress expressed in many ways, including the wish to be considerably thinner; Depression strongly related to body image problems; Endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph corresponds respectively to fat, thin and medium body shapes; Implicit association test developed to investigate stigma based on age, race and gender; Multi domain approaches helped to characterize self esteem in children and adolescents; Significant and maintained weight loss improves psychosocial status; Social and psychological factors in obesity; University selection procedures and parental attitudes act as barriers to higher educational achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954805384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712221.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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