ArticleAfrican health sciences2023
The relationship between weight self-stigma, depression and loneliness in people with obesity.
Article in African health sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Weight self-stigma and associated factors among primary school students in Linhai, China: a cross-sectional study.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Weight Self-Stigma, Physical Exercise, and Social Anxiety among Adolescents: Between-and Within-Person Effects.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Applicability of the Chinese weight self-stigma questionnaire and its relationships with depression, physical exercise, and quality of life.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The associations between BMI, body appreciation, body image flexibility, sleep duration and loneliness in workers in southern China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- 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
- The impact of weight self-stigma on appearance anxiety among female college students: a variable-centered and person-centered analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Association between weight, weight perception, weight teasing and mental health among adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Editor's choice: Sexual reproductive health, child issues, NCDs, surgery, infections and health systems - a salad of sorts.African health sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The research was conducted to determine the level of weight self-stigma, depression loneliness and whether is there a relationship between them. This was a descriptive correlational study. The study was conducted in a diet outpatient clinic of a university hospital. Participants had moderate weight self-stigma, depression and loneliness. Weight self-stigma sub-dimensions self-devaluation (β=0.28; p<0.001) and fear of enacted stigma (β=0.28; p<0.001) equally predicted depression. Fear of enacted stigma predicted social loneliness negatively (β=-.44; p<0.001). Fear of enacted stigma (β =.16, p<.005) and depression (β =.44, p<.001) predicted emotional loneliness positively. Weight self-stigma was positively correlated with depression and loneliness (p<0.001).
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