Couples losing kinship: A systematic review of weight stigma in romantic relationships

Schmidt, Alexandria M.; Jubran, Madeline; Salivar, Emily Georgia; Brochu, Paula M.

doi:10.1111/josi.12542

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“…Responses were not all negative, though, with some positive emotions and restorative behaviors also emerging. Similarly, Schmidt et al (2023) systematically reviewed research on weight stigma perpetrated in romantic relationships. Research in this area has focused on a range of indicators of relationship functioning, such as relationship quality, relationship satisfaction, partner support, relationship conflict, and co-regulation of emotions.…”

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Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science

Doyle

Barreto

2023

Journal of Social Issues

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Research on the relational effects of stigma must move beyond the intergroup context and, most importantly, focus upon the ways in which stigma itself shapes social relationships. In order to more deeply investigate the relational consequences of social stigma, researchers interested in this topic need to consider the potential contributions of relationship science. Drawing upon past theory, we pose four overarching questions that may help bridge research on social stigma with relationship science: (1) What types of relationships are relevant to understanding the social consequences of stigma? (2) How do relationships operate when partners are faced with social stigma? (3) What psychosocial tendencies do people whose identities are stigmatized bring to their relationships? (4) How does the broader social context affect relationships for members of stigmatized groups? We also consider methodological advances from relationship science, broadly defined, that may progress research in this area. Finally, we highlight the importance of eliminating discriminatory policy as well as introducing policy aimed at remediating social inequalities to ensuring equity in social health between members of stigmatized and dominant groups. It is our aim toThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: How Do Relationships Operate When Partners Are Faced With So...mentioning

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Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science

Doyle

Barreto

2023

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Lattaner and Hatzenbuehler (2023) for example trace the impact of structural stigma through to perceptions of structural stigma and its effects on loneliness and perceived lack of support, whereas Khurshid et al (2023) examine HIV in the cultural and structural context of Pakistan. Other papers address within-the-person identity threat (Froelich et al, 2023) or stereotype threat (Turetsky et al, 2023) whereas others focus on interpersonal enactment of stigma (Ballinger et al, 2023;Schmidt et al, 2023;Yampolsky et al, 2023). Interestingly others either explicitly or implicitly focus on the couple as the unit of analysis in a way that responds, in part to Goffman's call for a language of relationships instead of a language of attributes (Ballinger et al, 2023;Foster & Talley, 2023;Frost & LeBlanc, 2023;Gamarel et al, 2023;Vink et al, 2023;Yampolsky et al, 2023).…”

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“…At the same time, while the special issue generated a focus on social relationships it also allowed a broad consideration of many different stigmatizing circumstances. Relationship stigma is considered with respect to gender (Turetsky et al, 2023), low socioeconomic status (Park et al, 2023;Pestnik et al, 2023), mental illness (Ballinger et al, 2023) transgender people (Lewis et al, 2023) racism (Debrosse et al, 2023), same sex couples (Frost & Leblanc, 2023), weight (Schmidt et al, 2023), HIV (Gamarel et al, 2023;Khurshid et al, 2023), immigration status (Froehlich et al, 2023), gay men (Eschliman et al, 2023;Lattanner & Hatzenbuehler, 2023), homelessness (Rea, 2023), and women who earn more than their male partners (Vink et al, 2023). A final paper addressed 23 circumstances to show that mothers who experience stigma report more controlling behaviors with their daughters (Kazmierski et al, 2023. In addition to the breadth of conditions considered, the papers in the special issue span multiple levels.…”

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On the history and growth of the stigma concept: A reflection on the positioning of social relationships in stigma research

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2023

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The stigma concept has been tremendously successful one. Before Goffman's influential book only a handful of papers used the term in the abstract or title of a paper—in 2020 there were 3464. While the reason for stigma's dramatic growth is likely over determined two possibilities are suggested. The first is the usefulness that the concept carries for understanding the shame, social awkwardness, rejection, misunderstanding, and exclusion that people frequently experience across so many stigmatizing circumstances. The second is that the complexity of the stigma experience provides an enormous number of research puzzles in need of investigation as there are so many different stigmatizing circumstances that are affected at multiple levels across multiple outcomes. The current special issue addresses this complexity by focusing on the particularly important domain of social relationships but at the same allows complexity in the types of stigmatizing circumstances considered and the levels at which they are investigated. In what might be a model for the stigma field as it faces its tremendous growth, Doyle and Barreto (2023) use the multiple contributions to the special issue to develop thematic questions that will guide future research into stigma and social relationships.

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“…Individuals who receive positive rather than negative comments from their partners have a more positive view of their bodies and, consequently, of the partner who expresses these compliments [ 38 ]. Conversely, weight criticism between partners is consistently associated with poorer relationship functioning, including lower relationship satisfaction, sexual intimacy, relationship stability, and constructive communication during conflict [ 39 ].…”

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Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Attractive Partners Provide Joys and Sorrows

Cardelli

Matera

Policardo

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Through a 2 × 2 experimental vignette design, we tested if partner perceived attractiveness in interaction with appearance-related comments from one’s partner might affect women and men’s body dissatisfaction, body shame, acceptance of cosmetic surgery, and perceived relationship quality. Participants were 154 women and 157 men living in Italy (mean age = 30.97; all of them were in a couple relationship), who read a vignette describing the purchase of a swimsuit, through which partner attractiveness (poor versus high) and partner commentary (negative versus positive) were manipulated. Some ANCOVAs were performed on women and men separately. For men, partner commentary affected body dissatisfaction with low body fat. Moreover, the main effect of partner attractiveness was found in their consideration of undergoing cosmetic procedures. Among women, a significant partner attractiveness X partner commentary interaction effect emerged on acceptance of cosmetic surgery for social reasons. As regards relationship quality, for women, there was a main effect of partner attractiveness on relational communication, while a marginally significant interaction effect between partner attractiveness and partner commentary emerged for men’s self-disclosure. Our findings suggest that partner attractiveness is generally beneficial, but when combined with negative feedback concerning the appearance, it might lose its advantages. These findings should be considered for planning interventions aimed at both preventing body dissatisfaction and acceptance of cosmetic surgical procedures for not medical reasons and promoting relationship satisfaction among women and men.

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Couples losing kinship: A systematic review of weight stigma in romantic relationships

Cited by 10 publications

References 171 publications

Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science

Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science

On the history and growth of the stigma concept: A reflection on the positioning of social relationships in stigma research

Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Attractive Partners Provide Joys and Sorrows

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