Academic Journal
The Mediational Effect of Weight Self-Stigma in the Relationship between Blatant and Subtle Discrimination and Depression and Anxiety
| العنوان: | The Mediational Effect of Weight Self-Stigma in the Relationship between Blatant and Subtle Discrimination and Depression and Anxiety |
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| المؤلفون: | Magallares, Alejandro, Bolaños-Rios, Patricia, Ruiz-Prieto, Inmaculada, Benito de Valle, Pilar, Irles, Jose Antonio, Jáuregui-Lobera, Ignacio |
| المصدر: | The Spanish Journal of Psychology ; volume 20 ; ISSN 1138-7416 1988-2904 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| الوصف: | Obesity may be considered a social stigma. In addition, people with obesity are frequently aware of stigma directed at others who have a similar weight and come to think stigmatized thoughts about themselves. Our study focused specifically on how blatant and subtle discrimination and weight self-stigma are related to depression and anxiety in people with obesity. The sample comprised 170 participants from the Clinical Nutrition Unit of the “ Hospital de Valme ” (Seville, Spain). The Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Perceived Discrimination Scale, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were used. It was found that blatant and subtle discrimination and weight self-stigma were positively related to depression (.31, .38, and .45 respectively) and anxiety (.30, .36, and .49 respectively; all p s < .01). The path analysis conducted showed that there was a mediational effect of weight self-stigma between blatant (β = .36) and subtle discrimination (β = .40) and depression (β = .24) and anxiety (β = .49; all p s < .01). According to these results, it can be said that weight self-stigma was a full mediator in the model found because the relationships between the independent and the dependent variables were non-significant. Finally, results are discussed in the frame of the obesity stigma literature, and some clinical implications of the results of the study are suggested. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sjp.2017.1 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2017.1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1138741617000014 |
| Rights: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B5DF3B0D |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1017/sjp.2017.1 |
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