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Perceived vulnerability to disease and antifat attitudes in a sample of children and teenagers.
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- The causal relationship model of factors influencing COVID-19 preventive behaviors during the post-pandemic era and implications for health prevention strategies: a case of Bangkok City, Thailand.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Perceived Vulnerability to Disease and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Serial Mediation by Fear of COVID-19 and Trust in the Government.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- The Association of Perceived Vulnerability to Disease with Cognitive Restraint and Compensatory Behaviors.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The Effect of Infectious Disease Threat on Malevolent Creativity.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire: psychometric validation with a Portuguese sample.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- How Do Perceived Health Threats Affect the Junk Food Eating Behavior and Consequent Obesity? Moderating Role of Product Knowledge Hiding.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic.Appetite · 2021Article
- A Predictive Model of Perceived Susceptibility during the Year before Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.The journal of Tehran Heart Center · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposePerceived vulnerability to disease (beliefs about personal susceptibility to contracting an infectious disease) is usually related to the expression of prejudice towards different stigmatized groups. In this study, the relationship between this variable and the expression of the prejudice towards obese people was analyzed.
methodThe sample comprised a total of 137 children and teenagers, aged between 12 and 17 years, from a Spanish high school who fulfilled several scales which measure perceived vulnerability to disease, antifat attitudes and perceived controllability of weight. Additionally, body mass index (BMI) was calculated by means of the participants' height and weight.
resultsPerceived infectability (one of the factors of the perceived vulnerability to disease scale) was negatively related to controllability of weight, and germ aversion (the second factor of the vulnerability scale), showed a positive relationship with the antipathy towards obese people. Finally, perceived controllability of weight was positively correlated with BMI.
conclusionsThe implications of these results in the field of the study of the prejudice toward obese people are discussed. To our knowledge, no other studies have investigated the relationship between perceived vulnerability to disease and antifat attitudes in minors. Additionally, this is the first time that the measured BMI has been used instead of the self-reported one.
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