Perceptions of weight discrimination: prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America

By R. Puhl, T. Andreyeva, K. Brownell. International Journal of Obesity, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, background): “weight stigmatization and discrimination impact on health, health-seeking behaviors, and quality of health care [125-133].”
Coming Out as Fat (2011, background): “Both patterns are probably largely due to the fact that fat stigma weighs more heavily on women than on men (men, in contrast, suffer more stigmatization than women if they are short) (Conley and Glauber 2007; Puhl et al. 2008).”
Obesity stigma: important considerations for public health. (2010, background): “Recent estimates suggest that the prevalence of weight discrimination has increased by 66% over the past decade,(6) and is now comparable to prevalence rates of racial discrimination in America.(7) Despite several decades of literature documenting weight stigma as a compelling social problem,(1,2,8,”
Stress and Obesity. (2019, background): “Some studies report that weight stigma is even more common than stigma based on other social identities, such as race and ethnicity or gender, in certain domains (e.g., interpersonal mistreatment) (Puhl et al. 2008).”
Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity (2020, background): “Among adults with obesity, the prevalence of weight discrimination is 19-42%, with higher rates among those with higher body-mass index (BMI), and among women compared with men [11] [12] [13] .”
The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “First, findings showed that both overweight men and women were equally susceptible to weight discrimination in the workplace, which challenges some previous research documenting gender differences in weight bias (4,24).”
Dropping the weight stigma: nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight (2012, background): “past decade in the United States, and is now at least as prevalent as racial discrimination and, in some case, more prevalent than gender or age discrimination (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008; Puhl et al., 2008).”
Behavioural consequences of imagining intergroup contact with stigmatized outgroups (2012, background): “Weight discrimination has increased by 66% in the past decade in the United States, and is now at least as prevalent as racial discrimination and, in some cases, more prevalent than gender or age discrimination (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008; Puhl et al., 2008).”