Weight Stigma and Educators’ Perceptions of Children’s Psychological Symptoms
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- Illinois State University, Department of Psychology
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- Received 29 July 2008 20:38 UTC; Posted 01 August 2008
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Objective: To investigate whether weight stigma influences educators’ judgments about psychological symptoms in children.Design: Experimental study manipulating the weight status of children with school problems and examining implicit and explicit anti-fat attitudes as potential moderators of stigmatizing judgments.Subjects: 188 pre-service educators.Measurements: Attributions of laziness as primary dependent variable plus measures of implicit and explicit anti-fat attitudes as potential moderators.Results: Educators were more likely to attribute laziness to overweight children with school problems. Implicit anti-fat attitudes moderated this effect.Conclusion: Spontaneous anti-fat attitudes were importantly related to educators’ biases in understanding the psychological problems of obese children at school. Educators with more negative implicit anti-fat attitudes were more likely to attribute the school-relevant psychological symptoms of obese children to laziness. Explicit anti-fat attitudes did not moderate these attributions.
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Pryor, John and Reber, Laura. Weight Stigma and Educators’ Perceptions of Children’s Psychological Symptoms. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.2133.1> (2008)
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