Weight-based teasing
Subtitle: relationships with eating and exercise attitudes and behaviours, social physique anxiety and self-efficacy.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Description: The majority of research on weight-based teasing has focused on its relationship with disordered eating and psychological functioning among children and young women. Less is known about the relationship between weight-based teasing and variables such as physical activity patterns, social physique anxiety and self-efficacy beliefs among adult men and women. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between weight-based teasing and eating and exercise attitudes and behaviours, social physique anxiety and self-efficacy beliefs among adults. In addition, the research explored whether these relationships were different for males and females. A total of 219 men and women aged 18 and older completed questionnaires measuring teasing history, eating attitudes and behaviours, exercise orientation and exercise behaviours, social physique anxiety, physical self-efficacy and eating self-efficacy. The results indicated that weight-based teasing was significantly related to disordered eating symptoms, less positive attitudes toward exercise, physique anxiety, and lower self-efficacy beliefs. There was no interaction between teasing and gender. The findings contribute novel and important information to the field and underscore the harmful effects that teasing and critical comments about weight can have on the well-being of adults. The implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations for future research are proposed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: B, page: 5729.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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