The relationship between body weight and perceived weight-related employment discrimination: The role of sex and race
By M. Roehling, P. Roehling, Shaun Pichler. 2007
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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Conservation, Pharmacy
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In Clinical Psychology
- Janet Tomiyama
- Chelsea A. Heuer
- Charlie L. Law
- Amanda Williams
- Michael J. Merten
- M. Hebl
- Connie R. Wanberg
- R. Puhl
In Conservation
In Pharmacy
Citations in the corpus
- Gone Fishing: I–O Psychologists' Missed Opportunities to Understand Marginalized Employees' Experiences With Discrimination (2013, background): “…& Sun, 2009), and evidence that weight discrimination is a relatively prevalent and increasing form of employment discrimination that has implications for organization’s effective use of human resources and their potential legal liability (Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008; Roehling et al., 2007).”
- The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “Many job applicants, especially women, report they have been discriminated against because of their weight (Roehling et al. 2007).”
- The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “In addition, women were 16 times more likely to report weight-related employment discrimination than men (10).”
- Stress and Obesity. (2019, background): “Diurnal salivary and 24-h urine cortisol levels predict higher BMI and abdominal obesity (Fraser et al. 1999, Rosmond et al. 1998).”
- Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias (2012, unknown): “Common to most of the studies exploring this phenomenon is that fat women are more adversely impacted by weight-based employment discrimination than are men in a number of ways (Fikkan and Rothblum 2005; Griffin 2007) and are over 16 times more likely than men to perceive such discrimination, accord”
- Adolescent Obesity and Young Adult Psychosocial Outcomes: Gender and Racial Differences (2008, background): “While African Americans are more tolerant of larger body-types, so are employers and society in general more accepting of increased weight among Black men and women ( Roehling et al. 2007 ), indicating varying expectations regarding physical appearance based on race.”