Most question naires were brief , demonstrated adequate internal consistency , and tapped key cognitive and affective dimensions of weight bias such as stereotypes and blaming .
Background : People living with overweight and obesity often experience weight-based stigmatization .
Investigations of the prevalence and correlates of weight bias and evaluation of weight bias reduction interventions depend upon psychometrically-sound measurement .
Our paper is the first to comprehensively evaluate the psychometric properties , use of people-first language within items , and suitability for use with various population s of available self-report measures of weight bias .
An attempt to reduce negative stereotyping of obesity in children by changing controllability beliefs.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether changing children 's beliefs about the controllability of obesity would reduce their negative attitudes toward fat people . The participants were 74 children from Grade s 4 - 6 , 42 in the experimental group and 32 in the control group . The experimental group were presented with a brief intervention which focussed on the uncontrollability of weight .  The study found that the intervention was successful in reducing the amount of controllability that children assigned to obesity , but was not successful in reducing negative stereotyping of the obese among the experimental group compared to the control group . These results indicate that while children 's beliefs about the controllability of obesity can be changed , reducing their negative stereotyping is more difficult
Most question naires were brief , demonstrated adequate internal consistency , and tapped key cognitive and affective dimensions of weight bias such as stereotypes and blaming .
Background : People living with overweight and obesity often experience weight-based stigmatization .
Investigations of the prevalence and correlates of weight bias and evaluation of weight bias reduction interventions depend upon psychometrically-sound measurement .
Our paper is the first to comprehensively evaluate the psychometric properties , use of people-first language within items , and suitability for use with various population s of available self-report measures of weight bias .