The stigmatization of obesity in children. A survey in Greek elementary schools

Koroni, Maria; Garagouni-Areou, Fotini; Roussi-Vergou, Christina; Zafiropoulou, Maria; Piperakis, Stylianos M.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.09.006

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“…Some studies even claim that the stigmatisation of obesity by children and adolescents has risen [13, 42]. Bullying has been found to have a significant impact on the young people's desire to lose weight [17, 43].…”

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Overweight Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Weight and Weight Control Behaviour: HBSC Study in Finland 1994–2010

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Introduction. Overweight and perception of being overweight, may lead adolescent to lose weight. The aim of the present study was to investigate overweight adolescents' self-perceived weight, body dissatisfaction, and weight control behaviour during 1994–2010 in Finland. Methods. The country-representative, cross-sectional data of 15-year olds were obtained from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, conducted in 1994 (N = 1194; males: 48%), 1998 (N = 1545; 49%), 2002 (N = 1745; 50%), 2006 (N = 1670; 47%), and 2010 (N = 2082; 48%). Results. The majority of overweight boys (62–69%) and girls (89–100%) assessed themselves as too fat, and their body image was lower than in nonoverweight adolescents. The highest prevalence of current weight controlling was found in 2006 in males (18%) and in 2010 in females (39%). Conclusion. The phenomena were current and gender differences notable, but there was no statistically significant difference in overweight adolescents' self-perceived weight, body dissatisfaction, or weight control behaviour between survey years.

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Overweight Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Weight and Weight Control Behaviour: HBSC Study in Finland 1994–2010

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“…Children's gender, age and Body Mass Index (BMI) may affect attitudes toward overweight/obesity, but research results have been inconclusive. Some studies have observed no differences in gender (Penny & Haddock, 2007;Solbes & Enesco, 2010), but others have found that girls rate overweight/obese peers less favorably than boys (Koroni, Garagouni-Areou, Roussi-Vergou, Zafiropoulou, & Piperakis, 2009;Latner & Stunkard, 2003). Participants' age might also influence their ratings.…”

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“…First, it tries to determine children's positive and negative trait attribution toward fat body sizes and if differences are ascribed according to gender, age and BMI. In view of the attitudes toward overweight/obesity reported in the literature (Durante et al, 2014;Koroni et al, 2009), it is hypothesized that girls and younger children would hold more anti-fat bias than boys and older children. Regarding BMI, in line with research with primary school children (Hansson et al, 2009;Koroni et al, 2009), we expect no differences according to it.…”

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Anti-fat stereotypes and prejudices among primary school children and teachers in Spain

2018

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The aim of the present study was to investigate stereotypes and prejudices among children and schoolteachers toward overweight/obesity. Two thousand fifty-five 8- to 12-year-olds and their teachers took part in the study. Children’s body mass index, children’s perceptions of overweight/obesity and teachers’ assessment of school adjustment were measured. Students, particularly younger children, ascribed less positive attributes and more negative attributes to fat figures. Furthermore, in a task to assess their behavioral intentions to participate in social and recreational activities according to target’s body size, the fat figure was the least frequently chosen. Teachers reported lower overall school adjustment for overweight/obese students. Both children and teachers showed anti-fat bias. Future research should examine cost-effective interventions to prevent anti-fat bias and to promote healthy school climate.

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“…Esto resulta llamativo, pese a que en la bibliografía diversos trabajos han arribado a resultados similares al analizar estas actitudes en niños/as (Counts, Jones, Frame, Jarvie y Strauss, 1986;Cramer y Steinwert, 1998;koroni et al, 2009;Tiggemann y Anesbury, 2000) y en adultos (Latner, Stunkard y wilson, 2005;Schwartz, Vartanian, Nosek y Brownell, 2006;wang, Brownell y wadden, 2004). Por ejemplo, Davison y Birch (2004) identificaron que no había relación entre el peso corporal y la presencia de estereotipos negativos en niñas de 9 años.…”

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Attitudes Toward Overweight and Their Association With Risk of Eating Disorder in Children. An Exploratory Study

2017

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IntroducciónSufrir burlas por el peso constituye una de las formas más frecuentes en que se manifiesta el acoso escolar (Puhl, Luedicke y heuer, 2011). A su vez, es sabido que esta experiencia genera consecuencias negativas en el desarrollo psicológico de los niños que las padecen (kovalskys, Bay, Rausch herscovici y Berner, 2003), incrementando el riesgo de desarrollar alteraciones en la conducta alimentaria (Madowitz, knatz, Maginot, Crow y Boutelle, 2012).Por otra parte, las burlas por el peso corporal pueden estar motivadas por el sostenimiento de actitudes negativas hacia el sobrepeso. Pareciera que las representaciones socioculturales que equiparan delgadez con éxito y felicidad, propiciarían la construcción de creencias negativas hacia quienes se apartan del estereotipo (Elizathe, Murawski y Rutsztein, 2011;Rutsztein, 2002). Tal es así que diversos estudios identificaron que niños desde los 4 años de edad presentan actitudes negativas hacia la obesidad y el sobrepeso. Por ejemplo, niños/as de 4 a 6 años califican con atributos principalmente negativos ("desagradable", "tonto", "sin amigos", "descuidado", "feo") a una figura que representa un niño con sobrepeso (holub, 2008). Otro estudio detectó que niños/as entre 7 y 12 años consideran a la figura que representa a un niño con sobrepeso como "más vago" (86%), "menos feliz" (74%), "menos popular" (81%), y

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The stigmatization of obesity in children. A survey in Greek elementary schools

Cited by 27 publications

References 32 publications

Overweight Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Weight and Weight Control Behaviour: HBSC Study in Finland 1994–2010

Overweight Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Weight and Weight Control Behaviour: HBSC Study in Finland 1994–2010

Anti-fat stereotypes and prejudices among primary school children and teachers in Spain

Attitudes Toward Overweight and Their Association With Risk of Eating Disorder in Children. An Exploratory Study

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