Is Obesity Stigmatizing? Body Weight, Perceived Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being in the United States∗

By D. Carr, M. Friedman. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Pharmacy

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The Psychological Weight of Weight Stigma (2012, background): “Extant research has primarily documented the extent to which overweight people report being victims of weight-based discrimination and correlates of this perception (e.g., Carr & Friedman, 2005; Puhl, Andreyeva, & Brownell, 2008).”
“If You’re Fat, Then I’m Humongous!” (2011, background): “Given the stigma associated with being overweight (Carr & Friedman, 2005; Puhl & Brownell, 2006), it seems unlikely that an overweight woman would want to draw attention to her body size.”
Understanding Self‐directed Stigma: Development of the Weight Bias Internalization Scale (2008, background): “Friedman et al. (2) found that >75% of a sample of overweight and obese persons had experienced seven of eleven types of stigmatizing situations, ranging from being avoided to being physically attacked, at some point in their life.”
Confronting and Coping with Weight Stigma: An Investigation of Overweight and Obese Adults (2006, background): “Evidence indicates that negative attitudes in the form of stigma and bias are translated into discriminatory behaviors against obese persons (18).”
Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, positive): “For example, there are elevated rates of obesity in many racial minority populations and evidence of both a stigma linked to obesity and discrimination targeted at overweight individuals (Carr and Friedman 2005).”
Author's Personal Copy Understanding the relationship between obesity and positive and negative affect: The role of psychosocial mechanisms § (2007, background): “Given the pervasive evidence that obese people are treated more negatively than normal weight persons ( Carr & Friedman, 2005, 2006; Wang, Brownell, & Wadden, 2004), we expect that distressing interpersonal encounters may account, in part, for higher levels of negative affect and lower levels of po”
The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “Furthermore, very obese persons working in professional jobs were more likely than obese nonprofessionals to report employment discrimination (11).”
Changes in Perceived Weight Discrimination Among Americans, 1995–1996 Through 2004–2006 (2008, background): “One exception is the study examining the frequency of institutional and interpersonal discrimination in a nationally representative random sample of 3,437 adults from the 1995–1996 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) (16).”