ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors in Pakistani overweight adolescents: the mediating role of body esteem.
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- A systematic review of weight stigma and disordered eating cognitions and behaviors.Body image · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of weight self-stigma on psychological distress in adolescents: the chain-mediated roles of fear of negative appearance evaluation and social appearance anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Potential pathways to the onset and development of eating disorders in people with overweight and obesity: A scoping review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- The Role of Snack Choices, Body Weight Stereotypes and Smoking Behavior in Assessing Risk Factors for Adolescent Overweight and Obesity.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeWeight stigma has been described as social devaluation of people on the basis of their weight and it is associated with negative consequences. The present study was designed to investigate weight stigma and its relationship with disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescents. One of the main objectives of this study is to investigate the mediating role of body esteem between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescent girls.
methodsThrough cross-sectional research design and purposive sampling technique, a sample of 200 overweight adolescent girls was recruited from Lahore, Pakistan. Participants were asked to fill self-report measures related to weight stigma, body esteem, and disordered eating behaviors.
resultsSPSS and AMOS were used to analyze the data. Pearson product moment correlation showed that experiences of weight stigma were negatively related to body esteem and positively related to disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescent girls. Furthermore, structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that body esteem was significantly mediating the relationship between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls.
conclusionIt is concluded that weight stigma and body esteem play a significant role in the development and maintenance of disordered eating behaviors in overweight adolescents. Awareness/educational programs could be designed to empower adolescent girls in combating negative consequences of weight stigma. Furthermore, specific programs could be designed at college or university level to boost one's body esteem and reduce disordered eating behaviors. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
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