Unpacking the psychological weight of weight stigma: A rejection-expectation pathway.

ABSTRACT: The present research tested the hypothesis that the negative effects of weight stigma among higher body-weight individuals are mediated by expectations of social rejection. Women and men who varied in objective body-weight (body mass index; BMI) gave a speech describing why they would make a good date. Half believed that a potential dating partner would see a videotape of their speech (weight seen) and half believed that a potential dating partner would listen to an audiotape of their speech (weight unseen). Among women, but not men, higher body-weight predicted increased expectations of social rejection, decreased executive control resources, decreased self-esteem, increased self-conscious emotions and behavioral displays of self-consciousness when weight was seen but not when weight was

SUBMITTER: Blodorn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4702265 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature