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An attempt to reduce negative stereotyping of obesity in children by changing controllability beliefs

Author(s) -

Tracy Anesbury,

Marika Tiggemann

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

health education research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1465-3648

pISSN - 0268-1153

DOI - 10.1093/her/15.2.145

Subject(s) - controllability , obesity , intervention (counseling) , psychology , childhood obesity , developmental psychology , control (management) , child obesity , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , overweight , mathematics , psychiatry , computer science , endocrinology , artificial intelligence

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 Grades 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.

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