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Blaine, Bruce; McElroy, Jennifer

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“…We anticipated that women's BMI would negatively predict their perception that others accept their body (Path g). Societal messages to lose weight for both appearance and health-related reasons are prevalent and influential (Blaine & McElroy, 2002) and seem to be directed more toward women than men (Kilbourne, 1999). Significant others may internalize these messages that women's beauty and health are defined by their weight (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997).…”

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The acceptance model of intuitive eating: A comparison of women in emerging adulthood, early adulthood, and middle adulthood.

Augustus-Horvath

Tylka

2011

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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The acceptance model of intuitive eating (Avalos & Tylka, 2006) posits that body acceptance by others helps women appreciate their body and resist adopting an observer's perspective of their body, which contribute to their eating intuitively/adaptively. We extended this model by integrating body mass index (BMI) into its structure and investigating it with emerging (ages 18-25 years old, n = 318), early (ages 26-39 years old, n = 238), and middle (ages 40-65 years old, n = 245) adult women. Multiple-group analysis revealed that this model fit the data for all age groups. Body appreciation and resistance to adopt an observer's perspective mediated the body acceptance by others-intuitive eating link. Body acceptance by others mediated the social support-body appreciation and BMI-body appreciation links. Early and middle adult women had stronger negative BMI-body acceptance by others and BMI-intuitive eating relationships and a stronger positive body acceptance by others-body appreciation relationship than emerging adult women. Early adult women had a stronger positive resistance to adopt observer's perspective-body appreciation relationship than emerging and middle adult women.

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The acceptance model of intuitive eating: A comparison of women in emerging adulthood, early adulthood, and middle adulthood.

Augustus-Horvath

Tylka

2011

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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117

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“…Public attitudinal cues refer to information which displays devaluations of fat, including the expression of negative sentiment toward fatness (Brewis et al, 2017). Examples include "no fat chicks" bumper stickers, online postings expressing disdain toward fat people, gym advertisements which praise thinness and shame fatness, weight loss advertisements, and derogatory weight-based humor (Allon, 1975;Blaine & McElroy, 2002;Brewis et al, 2017;Chrisler & Yu, 2016;Geier et al, 2003;Lewis et al, 2011). These messages communicate to fat people that their bodies are shameful, unwanted, and devalued.…”

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Signaling sizeism: An assessment of body size‐based threat and safety cues

Oswald

Stevens

Kruk

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Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Pervasive stigma against fat people and evidence for its harmful health consequences highlight the need for a better understanding of people's first‐hand experiences of navigating the world with a stigmatized body size. Drawing on social identity threat theory, we conducted a mixed‐method study with a qualitative examination of threat and safety cues as experienced by people who self‐identify as overweight. In an online survey, 48 people who self‐identified as overweight responded to open‐ended prompts to describe how situational features of a setting signal weight‐based threat and safety to them. Using thematic analysis, we identified several themes that characterized threat and safety cues. Particularly notable were inverse themes, such as structural exclusion versus structural accommodation and homogeneity of others versus general diversity, that highlighted how physical features of, and the people in, an environment positively or negatively impact fat people's psychological experience. Moreover, we conducted exploratory deductive coding using a recent taxonomy of safety cues developed by Kruk and Matsick (in press). Results highlighted how weight‐based stigma both parallels and diverges from other cues of identity safety (e.g., by gender or race/ethnicity). We suggest knowledge about situational cues can inform interventions to mitigate threat and promote safety among both fat people and other stigmatized groups.

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Anti‐Fat Attitudes

Miller

Sepers

2013

The Encyclopedia of Cross‐Cultural Psychology

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Human beings are among the fattest of all mammals and unlike other mammals that primarily use fat as insulation, humans tend to use fat as an energy reserve. Unfortunately, in today's rapidly modernizing world, neither use of fat has the survival value that it once had. In understanding anti‐fat attitudes, it is worth noting three social epidemiological facts about obesity. First, females are more at risk of becoming obese and therefore more likely to be the target of anti‐fat attitudes. Second, obesity is rare in primitive populations but increases rapidly with modernization and as a result anti‐fat attitudes are more likely in industrialized societies. Finally, obesity is related to social class – in some cultures the relationship is positive but in affluent societies, the relationship is negative. Thus, anti‐fat attitudes are related to the value a culture places on body weight.

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Cited by 35 publications

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The acceptance model of intuitive eating: A comparison of women in emerging adulthood, early adulthood, and middle adulthood.

The acceptance model of intuitive eating: A comparison of women in emerging adulthood, early adulthood, and middle adulthood.

Signaling sizeism: An assessment of body size‐based threat and safety cues

Anti‐Fat Attitudes

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