A multinational examination of weight bias: Predictors of anti-fat attitudes across four countries

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1166-1173

  Puhl, R M ^a   Latner, J D ^b   O'Brien, K ^c   Luedicke, J ^a   Danielsdottir, S ^d   Forhan, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Directorate of Health   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAT PHOBIA SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL MEASURE OF BIAS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STEREOTYPING;

AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MALE; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936847072     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.32     Document Type: Article

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