Weighing obesity stigma: the relative strength of different forms of bias

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 32; no. 7; pp. 1145 - 1152
• Main Authors: Latner, J D, O'Brien, K S, Durso, L E, Brinkman, L A, MacDonald, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2008; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Adult; adults; Analysis; Bias; Biological and medical sciences; Body Image; Body mass index; Cohort Studies; college students; cultural environment; Discrimination; Epidemiology; Equal rights; Evaluation; Female; Hawaii; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Homosexuality; Homosexuality - psychology; Humans; Internal Medicine; Islam; Islam - psychology; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Minority & ethnic groups; Muslims; New Zealand; Obesity; Obesity - psychology; original-article; Overweight persons; Prejudice; psychology; Psychometrics; psychosocial factors; Public Health; Quantitative psychology; Religion; Reproducibility of Results; Research bias; Sexual orientation; Social aspects; Social Desirability; social environment; social problems; Society; Stigma; Stigma (Social psychology); United States; Validity; New Zealand; Hawaii; United States; United States > US; prejudice; validity; psychometric scale; stigma across targets; reliability; weight bias; Human; Obesity; Nutrition; Chronic disease; Stigma; Bias; Body weight; Nutrition disorder; Metabolic diseases; Psychometrics; Corporal biometry; Validity; Reliability; Nutritional status

Objective: To compare the strength of weight bias to other common biases, and to develop a psychometrically sound measure to assess and compare bias against different targets. Subjects: A total of 368 university students (75.4% women, 47.6% white, mean age: 21.53 years, mean body mass index (BMI): 2...