Adult and childhood weight influence body image and depression through weight stigmatization

Abstract

The goal of this study was to examine lifetime weight stigmatization as a mediator of the relationships among current body mass index, childhood overweight, depression, and body dissatisfaction. Participants were 299 female undergraduates (mean age = 20.52, standard deviation = 2.57; mean body mass index = 23.29, standard deviation = 4.51). Weight stigmatization significantly mediated the relationships between body mass index and body dissatisfaction, body mass index and depressive symptoms, and childhood overweight and depressive symptoms. The model accounted for 44.7 percent of the variance in depressive symptoms and 28.2 percent of the variance in body image dissatisfaction. Findings indicated that a decrease in weight stigmatization may predict better mental health.

Investigating the Association Between Body Fat and Depression via Mendelian Randomization

“…The causal relationship going from fat mass to depression is likely to have both psychological and biological components. Psychologically, perceived weight discrimination, stigmatization, and body image dissatisfaction may mediate the causality; [18][19][20][21] biologically, obesity is associated with several endocrine and metabolic changes that have been linked to depression, including altered glucocorticoid, adipokine, insulin, leptin, and inflammatory signaling. 22 Although our study was not aimed at providing insight into how fat increases the risk of depression, the finding that trunk fat mass was not more strongly associated with depression risk than fat mass on the limbs (rather we found a tendency towards the opposite), seems to be in favor of a psychological mechanism -since trunk fat is considered the more metabolically adverse.…”

Physical Activity in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity

“…Obesity in childhood increases the risks of developing chronic disease later in life, including cardiovascular and liver diseases, certain types of cancer, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and social repercussions associated with the condition (Baker, Olsen, & Sorensen, 2007;Liang et al, 2015;Marietti & Bugianesi, 2016;Stevens, Herbozo, Morrell, Schaefer, & Thompson, 2016). Although the rates of childhood overweight and obesity may be plateauing in some This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) regions of the world, such as the United States (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014), the global rising prevalence remains a concern for public health initiatives because of the overall influence obesity has on the younger population.…”

Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin İçselleştirilmiş Kilo Önyargılarının Depresyon ve Yeme Davranışlarıyla İlişkisinin Belirlenmesi

“…Stewens ve ark. 5 299 kişiyle yaptığı çalışmada kiloya yönelik içsel önyargılarının depresyona sebep olduğu belirlenmiştir. Benzer bir şekilde Salwen ve ark.…”

“…Toplum tarafından kilolu bireylere karşı oluşan önyargı, obez bireylerin kendilerini toplum içinde ifade edememesine ve kendilerini toplumdan dışlamalarına neden olabilir. Medya ve benzeri sosyokültürel etkenler nedeniyle oluşan gerçek dışı güzellik kavramı kadınların kendi bedenlerinden memnun olma düzeyini azaltmakta, beden memnuniyetsizliği ile birlikte yeme bozukluklarında artışa neden olmaktadır 5,6 . İçselleştirilmiş kilo önyargısı, bireyin toplumdaki olumsuz kalıp yargılarını kendisi tarafından kabullenmesi ve bunun sonucunda değersizlik, utanç gibi olumsuz duygularla kendini toplumdan geri çekmesidir 7,8 .…”