Journal articles
We have compiled a selection of journal articles relating to weight-based stigma.
This examines attitudes towards weight and weight stigma across 4 countries.
This aims to determine individuals’ everyday experiences of weight-based discrimination and to identify common themes.
This investigates the views of adolescents about their body weight and perceived changes in weight stigma from peers, parents, and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. .
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø convened a global working group to consider the ways that global obesity narratives may contribute to weight stigma, resulting in this with 9 recommendations for global health research and health promotion efforts that can help to reduce harmful obesity narratives, both inside and outside health contexts.
This aims to investigate the effect of weight stigma in news media.
investigating the impact of weight stigma on the motivational consequences of individuals.
This examined whether internalised societal attitudes about weight moderated the impact of weight stigma.
This compares weight stigma and personal experiences of weight stigma between 6 countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US), with the specific focus of assessing experiences and interpersonal sources of weight stigma.
This explores weight stigma and global health, investigating the idea of obesity stigma a ‘first world problem’, and discussing the rising evidence of obesity stigma emerging in the global south.
This aims to synthesize research findings on experiences and attitudes about obesity and stigma in health care.
The aim of this was to investigate the relationship of explicit and implicit weight bias both at the individual and national level.
The critical social issue of weight stigma, and the effect of this upon individuals is discussed in this .
The aim of the was to develop an appropriate questionnaire to be used in a survey to follow and further enhance existing instruments in understanding perceptions of individuals living with overweight and obesity.
The assessed public support for the implementation of laws and policies aimed at reducing weight-based stigma across 4 countries: United States, Canada, Australia, and Iceland.
This seeks to raise awareness regarding the prevalence and negative effects of weight stigma on pediatric patients and their families and provides 6 clinical practice and 4 advocacy recommendations regarding the role of pediatricians in addressing weight stigma.
This proposes the ‘Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework’, a global framework for health stigma applicable to a range of health conditions, including weight-based stigma.
This from the Language Matters working group, Obesity UK and National Health Service England Diabetes and Obesity, present this statement to emphasise the importance of a collaborative approach with people who have multiple different chronic conditions, and the priority of person-first language.
This tested whether the association between weight stigma experiences and disordered eating behaviors (emotional eating, uncontrolled eating, and loss-of-control eating) are mediated by weight bias internalisation and psychological distress.
A from our CEO and partner organisations surrounding the misconception that obesity is a matter of personal responsibility and that it is a ‘first world problem’. The commentary dissects this misleading narrative and highlights the fact that obesity affects people of all ages, all geographies, and all socioeconomic backgrounds.
This outlines the idea that an integrative approach to weight-related issues, merging knowledge from the fields of obesity and eating disorders, is central to effective prevention.
This explores weight-based victimisation from friends, family members, peers, and teachers.
This investigates the views and opinions of individuals living with overweight and obesity surrounding the acceptability of terms to describe weight status and how this affects their motivation to lose weight when used by health professionals.