ArticleStigma and health2018
Weight stigma facilitates unhealthy eating and weight gain via fear of fat.
Article in Stigma and health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03934424 (Exposure to Weight Stigmatization Content), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Exposure to Weight Stigmatization Content: Neural Correlations With Appetite Control, Social Support, Mood and Weight Stigma Experiences
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of weight stigma and disordered eating cognitions and behaviors.Body image · 2024Pooled it
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- Exercise-based obesity simulation reduces weight bias and improves clinical decision-making in health professions students: a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Weight maintenance after discontinuation of GLP-1 therapies.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Diet culture socialization in the parent-child relationship: Effects on children's disordered eating and positive body image.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2025Article
- An interpretative phenomenological analysis of lived experiences and psychological processes in internalized weight stigma.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- The Social, Behavioral, and Psychological Predictors of Young Women's Food Choices: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Fear of Fat, Processes of Change, and Weight-Related Behaviors in Mexican and Spanish Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of the healthy lifestyle community program (cohort 1) on stress-eating and weight change after 8 weeks: a controlled study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Association of Perceived Vulnerability to Disease with Cognitive Restraint and Compensatory Behaviors.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Effective strategies in ending weight stigma in healthcare.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Review
- Intuitive eating buffers the link between internalized weight stigma and body mass index in stressed adults.Appetite · 2022Article
- Coping styles moderate the relationship between perceived discrimination and eating behaviors during the transition to college.Appetite · 2022Article
- Weight stigma is overlooked in commercial-grade mobile applications for weight loss and weight-related behaviors.Obesity science & practice · 2021Article
- Characterizing Lifetime and Daily Experiences of Weight Stigma among Sexual Minority Women with Overweight and Obesity: A Descriptive Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Fear of fat and restrained eating: negative body talk between female friends as a moderator.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Internalised Weight Stigma Moderates the Impact of a Stigmatising Prime on Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Higher- but Not Lower-Weight Individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Weight stigma predicts inhibitory control and food selection in response to the salience of weight discrimination.Appetite · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveAcross two studies, we examine if the relationships between perceived weight stigma, maladaptive eating behaviors (Study 1 & 2) and weight gain (Study 2) are mediated by fear of fat (FOF).
methodIn Study 1, 189 participants completed measures of eating behavior (e.g., emotional and restrained eating), FOF, perceived weight stigma and height and weight. In Study 2, a longitudinal design, participants reported their perceived weight stigma, FOF and had their height and weight measured; they then returned 10 weeks later to complete measures of eating behaviors (e.g., flexible restraint, ridged restraint, and emotional eating) and height and weight. We examined the predictive value of weight stigma at session 1 on eating behavior and weight gain at session 2. Further, we examined FOF as a mediator of these relationships.
resultsIn Study 1, we found that FOF significantly mediated the positive relationship between perceived weight stigma and restrained eating behavior (
conclusionFear of fat may be one process through which perceptions of weight stigma lead to maladaptive eating behavior and weight gain. Understanding this important process may lead to more effective healthy weight interventions.
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