Negative Stereotyping of Obesity in Children: The Role of Controllability Beliefs

By M. Tiggemann, Tracy Anesbury. 2000

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Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “The stigmatization of fatness is apparent early in childhood (Goldfield and Chrisler 1995; Latner and Stunkard 2003; Tiggemann and Anesbury 2000) and communicated in children’s media (Baker-Sperry and Grauerholz 2003; Herbozo et al.”
Bias, discrimination, and obesity. (2001, background): “Other work has demonstrated that children in grades four through six endorse negative stereotypes for both obese children and adults, and regardless of the child’s own weight, age, and gender (95).”
Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health. (2004, result): “Similar observations have been made among Australian boys and girls (aged 8–12 years) (162).”
Stigma, obesity, and the health of the nation's children. (2007, background): “These findings parallel results of other studies (Counts et al., 1986; Tiggemann & Anesbury, 2000) and are similar to findings among adults that show overweight and obese persons are just as likely to endorse stigmatizing attitudes as are nonoverweight persons (Latner et al., 2005; Schwartz,…”