A randomized study of effects of obesity framing on weight stigma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Growing evidence suggests highly processed foods may trigger an addictive-like process, which is associated with obesity. Other research suggests an addictive-like process occurs in response to eating itself, rather than specific foods. Addiction-based obesity explanations raise concerns about double stigmatization of people with obesity and addiction. This study compared effects of obesity framings on external and internalized weight stigma.

Methods

The study was preregistered via Open Science Framework. Four hundred and forty-seven adults read an informational passage that described food addiction, eating addiction, or calorie balance explanations for obesity or a control passage about memory. Participants then completed external and internalized weight stigma me

SUBMITTER: Parnarouskis L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826923 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature