Measuring internalized weight attitudes across body weight categories: Validation of the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale

Body Image

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-92

  Pearl, Rebecca L ^a   Puhl, Rebecca M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity   (United States)

Author keywords

Internalized attitudes; Measurement; Stigma; Weight bias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNALIZED ATTITUDES; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; STIGMA; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

INTERNALIZED ATTITUDES; MEASUREMENT; STIGMA; WEIGHT BIAS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891626952     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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